Sabah Costumes

The title "Land Below the Wind" reflects not only geographic location of Sabah but also its enchanting culture and landscape.

Sabah comprises more than 23 ethnic groups, each rich in culture and tradition, the cultural mosaic of Sabah is amazing. Their traditional clothing reflects skillful handwork as shown in the ‘linangkit’ embroidery, and the creative application of sequins and beads as decorative items to the ‘sarempak’ head dress, the ‘mandapun’ ornamental collar, the long tapered ‘keku’ fingercovers, ‘ingkot pangkat’ coin belt and sash.

The expertise in decorating these costumes and the refined touch to the art of dressing expressed within the Sabah costumes illuminates a sense of beauty and uniqueness.


A traditional attire by the Suluk ethnic group worn during the Mengiluk dance.


A Bajau couple wearing traditional wedding and ceremonial costume. Man's costume in lace satin similarly to maiden's dress which also includes a 'mandapun' and decorative belt.

A traditional Kadazan costume from Penampang. Man wearing 'gaung' top, 'souva' trousers, 'toogot' waistband and 'siga' headgear. Maiden in short 'sinuangga' blouse, 'tapi' skirt, batik shawl and 'himpogot' belt.

An Irranum couple wearing traditional costume made from woven cloth or 'Mogah'.

The Rungus ethnic traditional costume. Man wearing 'badu' top, 'soval' trousers, 'hokos' waistband and 'sigal' head gear. Maiden in tight 'banat' blouse, knee high 'tapi' skirt and head dress called 'sisingal' and 'rampai'. Accessories made from colourful beads called 'pinakol' and 'togkol'.

The Murut traditional costume. Man in 'barbaru' jacket and 'puputul' tree bark loin-cloth. The headgear called 'tupi sinulatan' made of a kind of tree bark. Maiden in cotton 'pinongkolo' costume patterned with traditional motifs and beads. Accessories such as the 'rarangkol' necklace and 'salupai' head dress created from colourful beads.

Photoshop Tutorials Shiny Orb Website Button

Here we will tell you how to make a Shiny-orb-website-button in photoshop.
1] Take a new file of 400 pixels, 400 pixels, of resolution 72 dpi in the RGB mode.

2] Take the Gradient Tool use these settings.


3] Fill the Background with the help of Gradient Tool, then take the Elliptical Marquee Tool, make a new layer create a shape and fill with Black color.

4] Go to Blending Option use the following settings.





5] Your image should be as shown below.

6] Create a new shape with the help of Elliptical Marquee Tool.

7] Now go to Blending Option use the following settings.



8] Your image should be look like this.

9] Now Cntl+Clink on this layer to make the selection.

10] Take the Elliptical Marquee Tool use these settings.

11] Then create a shape over the selection like this.

12] Go to Select>Feather Selection.

13] Make a new layer and fill the selection with White color.

14] Now change the Blending Mode to Overlay.

15] Your image should be as shown below.

16] Create a new shape with the help of Elliptical Marquee Tool.

17] Take the Gradient Tool use these settings.

18] Make the new layer and fill the selection with the help of Gradient Tool.

19] Take the Text Tool use these settings

20] Create a text type “L” then press Cntl+T, Transform Selection to Rotate your text layer.
21] Thanks for reading, I hope this photoshop tutorial has taught you few photoshop tricks and techniques and you can use them in your website design project. Your final image will look like this.

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