The Process of making Peacock Kite

THE PROCESS TO PROCESS-Wau Merak (Peacock Kite)

The first process of finding bamboo stick.To find finest bamboo is not complicated. The bamboo must be cut and dried and stored for a long time. It is said that the best period to keep the bamboo is one month after the cut. Bamboo can also be purchased at shops that work out of bamboo furniture such as shops or hardware stores that sell bamboo to hang clothes.

After cleaning the bamboo is just using by a sand paper, and bamboo were split into small parts for the whittle. To divide into parts for a larger share should be using a handsaw. But if you want to divide the smaller should use the dagger. Bamboo that has been cut will be separated and determined which will be part of the spine and part of which will be the wings. The process then is cut bamboo and to solid the bamboo to facilitate the process to whittle.If dried bamboo for a week, easy to cut compared its bady of bamboo has been saved for a month. Next is the bamboo whittle.

Whittle bamboo requires a base thigh jeans cloth, sharp knife and gloves.The guides is like this, put the bamboo in the thigh, press the knife and just move the bamboo to whittle. This process is difficult if has no experience to do it before. Whittle process should be done carefully so that no over-cut bamboo or broken during whittle.

The next step, after whittle, bamboo is measured to compensate for the long bamboo to make the wings. Wing length of bamboo to be the same for a measure of flexibility. After that, the process shall be binding on the wings of bamboo. The use of fine white nylon rope commonly used by manufacturers in many places kites. Having merged the two trangka wing, then the next is the backbone of wing kites. But the result is seen as a good.

Wau, if the wing is joined to both the balanced and the same curved line. At the very right-wing kites are made notch to make it more stable. Create a tense tie it with string in the middle of the wing just now. For the entire four-string to support the body or wing kites. Balance is needed so that the rope is not too berselirat or updates. The result is a framework that looks perfect Wau Merak. Ties placed on each white glue to better strengthen the bonds of kites. For tail Wau Merak, the shape at the bottom is very important to show that this is not the same wau kite or wau Hornbills which are at the tail is flat and not shaping like the picture below. How is using Lighter, baked bamboo bar at the bottom of the peacock tail kites to lentik. But the result is as shaping on both blade tail kites. Next is the cutting the design wau.Proses requires diligence and care. Wau process usually takes a whole day in care. Cutting process is usually done using a special knife that is sharp eye and runcing.Sometimes have also used the stick as pen.

Whatever knife blade used, the blade must be sharp and not rusty. This process is very complicated because we need to cut a total of four layers of clean and, if contested, the interpreter will evaluate the score finish at every cut and create a pattern. When you are finished, we can see the result of opening the four sides of the color of the paper. Then, start decorating with the colors of the color of the paper at the back of the kites to cover the parts that require saja.Examples, put green leaf color and black pepper placed purple. Tail is made of the same process as the body kites. Different body should be folded into four kites. But the tail is folded just two only. The same process is performed similar to the pattern and paste in the body kites.