01/09/2026
| Know our Solung More today
“Forest was our Natural Calendar”
| Know more about our Pore/Poreng
Pore is not something simply stitched onto a finished Gale. It is created as part of the weaving structure itself.process begins with the Pere, made using a special heddle. The heddle alternates the yarns—two up, two down—and the weaver passes the shuttle through it. From there, the design develops through a sequence of structures: Kyagul, Gang, Nome, Amik, Mekok, Tirlat and Mosang.
Pore begins with the warp — not as an embroidery added later…
| GALING GALE
The Galing Gale is a traditional wrap worn by Adi women and also by our Miri, the local ritual priest.
In our tradition, on the Solung day of the mithun sacrifice, the Galing Gale is worn in red. Its presence marks the occasion as one of ceremony—when the ordinary rhythm of life gives way to ritual, offering and communion.
“Preserved through community knowledge and oral tradition.”
LUGDI–LUGJOK GALUK
A garment remembered. A form reimagined.
Among the Adi, clothing has never been simply about dressing the body. The cloth carries identity.
The designs are connected to everyday life, ancestral histories, myths, legends and the natural world.
My grandmother would tell me that the earliest form of clothing worn by our Adi people was the Lugdi–Lugjok Galuk—the upper coat—born from the cotton that our land gave us. Cotton was grown, hand-spun into thread, and cooked rice was worked into the fibres as a natural binder, helping the threads hold together. The yarn was then dyed using colours drawn from plants and the forest, before being woven into cloth by hand. She would tell me that this was how our cloth began—with cotton, rice, plants, patience and the hands of our women. The Lugdi–Lugjok Galuk, like the Badu, carries that memory of making: a story of how our people turned what the land gave them into something to wear, to belong, and to pass on.
the story of the Goyeng—the cicada. The intricate criss-cross geometry of Pore is said to imitate the pattern of the cicada’s wing. The story is closely connected to the seasonal life of the Adi: cicadas were associated with the summer season an
