Kampung Manik · Samarinda · East Kalimantan
Beadwork from the Bead Village.
Alana Wina Trudi brings to you the hand-beaded Dayak craft of home décor, jewelry, bags and small accessories, beaded one glass bead at a time by the women of Kampung Manik, Samarinda. Wholesale only, shipped worldwide from Indonesia.
Shot 01 · 4:5 · A beader’s hands at work, close enough to see the beads, the thread, the count.
Why Dayak beadwork
What it brings to shelves around the world
A living Borneo tradition
The aso’, the hornbill, the standing ancestor figure: motifs Dayak beaders have carried for generations on baby carriers, sun hats and ceremonial dress. Every piece in this line is new work in that language: contemporary product, traditional grammar.
Handwork you can count
A 120 cm table runner carries roughly 28,000 glass beads, threaded one by one onto cotton. One beader, about three weeks. Nothing is printed, nothing is moulded. The pattern is built bead by bead, and it shows at arm’s length.
Not already everywhere
Buyers around the world know Indian and Central American beadwork on sight. Dayak work reads differently, with its dense dark grounds, mirrored hooks and guardian figures, and it sits naturally among linen, rattan and stoneware. A story the shop two streets over is not telling.
The line, in five shelves
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The women of Kampung Manik at work, filmed in the village. Privacy-enhanced embed; nothing loads from YouTube until you press play.
The women of Kampung Manik
Kampung Manik means the Bead Village. It is a literal name.
In this Samarinda neighbourhood on the Mahakam River, beading is what the women do. The tradition is Dayak; the hands are Dayak, Banjar and Bugis: neighbours who learned from neighbours, mothers who taught daughters. Most of the work happens at home, between family life: a runner is about three weeks of one woman’s hands, roughly 28,000 beads, each one placed. A wholesale order lands here as weeks of paid work for a group of women, at rates the groups set with us.
The full story on Our Makers →Shot 02 · 3:4 · A beader on her porch, work in her lap.
Wholesale
See the line. Price your margin.
The line sheet carries wholesale prices in EUR or USD, FOB indications, colourways and current lead times. It is sent as a PDF within two business days of your request.
Collection
Hand-beaded, piece by piece
Every piece is beaded in Kampung Manik on glass seed beads, cotton and rattan. Wholesale prices are quoted in EUR or USD and live in the line sheet, which you can request any time.
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Motifs & Meaning
Four families of motif
Every piece in the collection carries one of a small family of Dayak motifs. Knowing them is good floor talk, and this page is written to be borrowed for your shelf cards and product pages.
Shot · 1:1 · Aso’ motif in beads, close enough to count.
Motif family 01
Aso’
the dragon-dog
Part dog, part serpent, the aso’ is the great guardian figure of Kayan and Kenyah art. On beadwork its body unwinds into hooks and spirals until it fills the field edge to edge. You read the curl of a jaw here, a tail there, inside what first looks like pure geometry. Traditionally it protected what mattered most: baby carriers, shields, the houses of leading families.
In the collection: Mahakam Table Runner · Aso’ Evening Clutch · Anjat Mini Backpack
Motif family 02
Tinggang
the hornbill
In Dayak cosmology the rhinoceros hornbill flies between the upper world and this one as a messenger and an omen bird, and today it is the emblem of Kalimantan itself. Beaders render the sweep of its casque and tail as long curved lines that give a composition its movement. On a contemporary shelf it reads simply as a strong, strange, beautiful bird.
In the collection: Tinggang Wall Panel · Tinggang Drop Earrings · Enggang Zip Pouch
Shot · 1:1 · The hornbill’s curve, beaded.
Shot · 1:1 · The standing figure, arms raised.
Motif family 03
Kelunan
the human figure
A standing figure, arms raised, faceted into the bead grid. In older work the figure marked rank, with the fullest versions reserved for the carriers of leading families, and it stood as ancestor and guardian over the child who rode beneath it. The figures beaded in Kampung Manik today are new drawings in that tradition.
In the collection: Kelunan Wall Hanging · Uleng Strand Necklace
Motif family 04
Mata punai & the borders
the dove’s eye, zigzags, paired hooks
The small repeating patterns (mata punai, the dove’s-eye diamond, with its zigzag and hook companions) are the grammar that frames every larger motif. They are also where the beaders improvise: a colour swapped, a border traded with a neighbour, a signature in the margins. Most of the small-format pieces in the line are built from borders alone.
In the collection: Punai Placemats · Manik Coasters · Rattan Tray · Sekapit Cuff · Keychain Display
Shot · 1:1 · Border patterns in rows, the grammar of the work.
A note on cultural respect
These motifs belong to living Dayak traditions. Everything we sell is new work, designed for contemporary homes and made in Kampung Manik by women of the Dayak, Banjar and Bugis communities, paid at rates agreed with their beading groups. We do not sell ceremonial objects or antiques, and nothing on this site should be read as one.
Wholesale
How buying works
Everything on this page is the standard arrangement. Everything specific, from prices to quantities to current lead times, lives in the line sheet (EUR or USD) and in direct conversation. Request it at the bottom of the page.
From first email to reorder
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Request the line sheet
Use the form below. The line sheet PDF arrives within two business days: wholesale prices in EUR or USD, colourways, current lead times.
02
Order samples
Shortlist from the line sheet; samples go out by courier from Samarinda, door to door in about a week. Sample costs are credited against your first order.
03
Place the first order
Confirmed by pro forma invoice. Production runs in the village in small batches; typical first orders ship in 4–8 weeks.
04
Reorder
Colourways and motifs stay in the line, so repeats match. Reorders skip sampling and usually ship faster.
Terms
- Lead times
- Samples in about 1–2 weeks. Wholesale orders typically 4–8 weeks depending on volume and season, confirmed per order.
- Incoterms
- EXW Samarinda, or FOB Balikpapan / Jakarta. Your forwarder or ours can quote the leg to your market.
- Payment
- Bank transfer in EUR or USD. Typically 50% with the pro forma, balance before dispatch; samples prepaid.
- Packaging
- Packed flat in kraft, bulk-cartoned, no retail plastic. Retail-ready options such as maker-story hang tags and barcode labels are arranged per order.
- Order quantities
- Handled in the line sheet and in direct conversation, and kept workable for independent shops. Ask us; we would rather talk than publish a figure.
- Currency
- All wholesale prices are quoted and invoiced in EUR or USD, whichever you prefer.
Pricing & landed cost
The line sheet quotes unit prices EXW Samarinda with FOB indications. The example below shows how a landed cost builds up, so you can model margin before you commit to anything.
| Example piece | Unit EXW | Unit FOB | Est. landed cost | Suggested RRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manik Coaster Set (6) | € 9.50 | € 10.20 | € 13–15 | € 29–35 |
| Mahakam Table Runner | € 38.00 | € 40.50 | € 50–56 | € 119–139 |
| Uleng Strand Necklace | € 14.00 | € 15.00 | € 19–21 | € 49–59 |
Landed estimate = FOB + a sea-LCL freight share + destination-market duty + import VAT at typical rates for this category; your forwarder’s quote replaces it. Suggested RRP assumes a standard specialty-retail markup on landed cost. All figures on this page are illustrative.
Shipping
Samples & small orders
Courier from Balikpapan
DHL or FedEx, door to door in about 4–7 days, tracked. The right channel for sample sets and cartons up to roughly 30 kg.
Volume orders
Sea LCL via Surabaya / Jakarta
Consolidated LCL to your port; typically 5–7 weeks on the water. Clean export documents handed to your forwarder either way.
Documentation
Every order ships with material declarations, care and handling notes, and full export paperwork: commercial invoice, packing list, and certificate of origin where your import requires it. Product test reports and compliance documents are available on request: tell us what your market requires and we will work through it with you.
What your order means
A wholesale order lands in Kampung Manik as weeks of steady, paid work for a beading group, done at home, at rates the groups set with us. That is the whole arrangement: trade, on ordinary commercial terms. We ask you to stock this work because it sells.
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Request the line sheet
The line sheet PDF, with wholesale prices in EUR or USD, FOB indications, colourways and lead times, arrives within two business days.
Request received.
The line sheet PDF goes out within two business days, sent from Samarinda by a person, not an autoresponder. If samples are urgent, write to hello@alwintru.com and we will start there.
Our makers
Kampung Manik, the Bead Village
One neighbourhood in Samarinda, on the Mahakam River, where beadwork is the daily craft of its women. This is where every piece we sell is made. Watch first; the film says it better than the page does.
The women of Kampung Manik at their work: threading, counting, talking. Filmed in the village, Samarinda, East Kalimantan. Privacy-enhanced embed: nothing loads from YouTube until you press play.
Samarinda sits on the Mahakam, the river that was East Kalimantan’s road before there were roads. In one of its kampungs, Kampung Manik, literally the Bead Village, beadwork is not a workshop trade but a neighbourhood one. It happens on porches and living-room floors, in the hours between school runs and cooking, by women who learned it the way you learn a language spoken at home.
The tradition is Dayak: the motifs, the colour logic, the dense grounds all come from the beadwork of Borneo’s indigenous peoples. The village, like most of Samarinda, is more than one community. Dayak, Banjar and Bugis women live on the same lanes and bead the same patterns. Neighbours taught neighbours, mothers teach daughters, and the craft crossed community lines a generation ago without ever leaving home. Three heritages keep one art form working.
The work itself is slower than photographs suggest. Beads go on one at a time: a table runner is roughly 28,000 of them, about three weeks of one woman’s hands. Patterns are counted, not printed; a mistake is unpicked bead by bead. Pay is per piece, at rates agreed with each beading group, and a wholesale order arrives here as weeks of that work, planned around the household, not against it.
Alana Wina Trudi is a founder-led company based in Samarinda. Orders are coordinated directly with the beading groups, with no agents between the village and your purchase order, and every piece is checked in Samarinda before it ships.
Shot 03 · 4:5 · Portrait of a beader at work.
Shot 04 · 1:1 · The beads themselves, in sorting trays.
Shot 05 · 3:2 · The village lane.
Shot 06 · 3:2 · The Mahakam at Samarinda.
Shot 07 · 3:2 · A beading group at work together.
Materials & sourcing
Three materials do almost all of the work: glass seed beads, bought by the kilo in Samarinda’s craft market; cotton thread and canvas; and natural rattan for frames, trays and bag bodies. Brass fittings appear where a piece needs them. Material declarations ship with every order; care and handling notes are included in the carton.
Contact
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Buying wholesale?
The fastest route is the line sheet request: one form, and the pricing PDF (EUR or USD) is in your inbox within two business days.