Pinto Aceh: Motifs and Its Embodiments in Craft Art

Abstract

Motifs as decoration are closely related to human activities that have an aesthetic sense. The people of Aceh are familiar with the Pinto Aceh motif as decoration in various forms of handicrafts. This study aims to explain what motifs are applied to Pinto Aceh and to describe how decorative motifs are applied to Pinto Aceh. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method. Data collection was carried out using observation techniques, interviews and documentation, and data processing using qualitative analysis techniques. The results showed that basically the motifs used in Pinto Aceh consisted of boh eungkot (fish eggs), pucok nails (fern shoots), pucok reubong (bamboo shoots), bungong meulu (melur flowers), bungong seulanga (ylang flowers), oen (leaves), oen meurong (moringa leaves) and geometric, decorative motifs on Pinto Aceh are generally widely used on Acehnese craft objects and monumental places for the people of Aceh. In applying the Aceh decorative motifs to the Pinto Aceh, the motifs applied are not the same because the craftsmen do not know about the original form of the Pinto Aceh motif, in which the community prefers the simple form of the motifs applied. The application of Acehnese decorative motifs to Pinto Aceh motifs is not always the same because there is no original design (standard) of Pinto Aceh motifs.