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in the household is Bu Karti's, the largest shop in Taman Sari; Bu Karti's carries a large selection of paintings, dress kain, some jariks, tablecloths, bedspreads, T-shirts and ready-to-wear; dress kain, T-shirts etc. come from a factory in Nagan section of town (south of Taman Sari) but is not clear whether Bu Karti owns the factory or not; ready-to-wear is made from kain in the back room and customers can order clothes to be sewn within 24 hours; some of the salesgirls at Bu Kartis are hired, non-family
Bu Karti's has grown out of one of the original 4 or 5 peusahaan that dates from the 1930's; the others are near her establishment and one owned by a cousin, one by a younger sister
in answer to a question as to whether there was any organization among the T.S. enterprises, was told that they once organized themselves but eventually everyone 

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got "bored" coming to meetings and the organization fell apart - also because "some of the boys had different ideas about batik" and preferred to work "individually" ("secara individu")
- Bu Karti's cousin (next door) told us that her father had been active in the old districtwide government batik co-op dating from Dutch times, but that other T.S. owners had not joined; that old coop has now been split into 5 sub-district co-ops, T.S. falling in the area of the Senopati co-op; she maintains her membership in the Senopati coop in memory of her father, but is not active, while no one else in T.S. has joined the Senopati coop.
almost all costumers of T.S. nowadays are either foreigners, or Indonesians "from Jakarta" - paintings and ready-to-wear geared to Western tastes and at least one son or daughter in each establishment [[crossed out]] can at least speak