Dian Widiawati
"Nowadays, along with the awareness of global community, the importance of saving the environment, as well as great appreciation of the values of local wisdom and certain community culture, opens opportunities for the development of products with sustainable natural materials, including textile products with natural dyes. Indonesia has a wealth of textile culture in various corners of the region, one of which is songket weaving from the Lombok area. Ungga Village, Praya Barat Daya District, Central Lombok Regency is known as a centers of weaving crafts. Ungga Village, which is mostly inhabited by the original inhabitants of the Sasak tribe, has a cloth weaving activity that has become a hereditary habit of their ancestors. Local people require every daughter to be able to weave cloth. The stages of the process of making Lombok typical fabric fabrics requires a long time, for one songket woven material requires a manufacturing time for 3 weeks, depending on the skills and levels of the complexity of weaving. The problem encountered in the field is that most of the weavers in the area still use synthetic dyes, due to the limited knowledge of local weaving in utilizing the natural potential of the surrounding natural dyes. Although some weavers have tried to carry out the production process with natural dyes, but there are still very few who have taken it and constrained various things. Based on this problem, through the PKM PPMI KK 2022 program, training and dyeing assistance with natural coloring and the development of songket weaving designs for the area. It is hoped that after this activity the weaver community can master the techniques of natural coloring, so that there is an improvement in the quality of products with a variety of weaving designs, and is able to apply it to the future production process in the future"