Monday, 26 Apr 2021 11:28 AM MYT
BY SYLVIA LOOI
With a torchlight on his head, songkok maker Hamzah Irzal can complete one songkok in 30 minutes. Picture by Farhan Najib
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IPOH, April 26 Songkok maker Hamzah Irzal worries for the product’s future.
The 52-year-old said the younger generation does not display interest in learning the trade.
Hamzah said he had been asked to teach songkok-making by a skills institute at Seri Iskandar years ago but the course did not take off as there were simply no takers.
“I was willing to teach but nobody signed up to learn,” the father of five said.