Searching pua kumbu fabric information / Nurhazlinda Jupri

Pua Kumbu is the Iban traditional cloth that is used to decorate houses. Pua Kumbu is not just a blanket to the Iban of Sarawak but more appropriately simply called a cloth. It is a sacred ceremonial and ritual textile. The information about the textile is quite difficult to be obtained. At present the information is limited to small numbers Iban communities due to modernization. Furthermore, there are very few information provider and most of them are outdated or inactive. Mostly the information can be obtained from the website, book or blog. However, the web contents are not being updated for quite some time. The recent book of Pua Kumbu was published in July, 1998. Furthermore, there were several bloggers provide information about Pua Kumbu however most of them were inactive or some blog were open for invited readers. As a result, there are very limited information about Pua Kumbu can be obtained either from the web or hardcopies. This project provides means for preserve information and details about the fabric. The main function on this system is the collections of the fabric and the search technique. In this project there are two types of search techniques. There are general search technique and advance search technique. For general search technique, the result will be same as keyword search and for advance search technique the result will be from selection of category and position. This prototype system is able to select fabric from the database based on the characteristics that been choose by the user. Besides that, the selection of the fabric will be suitable to be display as the user chooses based on specific characteristics.