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but I saw no cane growing while I was there
are many stands of bamboo in + around the village
village is within walking distance of main road + access road can carry all types of vehicles all seasons - newly-paved back road leads over to the kulit village of Gendeng (see above p66-77)
going in on the access road if turn right just before Kasongan
there is a small leather-working commune run by Iskandar Waworuntu (half-English-half Minadonese son of jewelry maker, Judith Tumbelaka) + some of his Jakarta friends
up to 1967-8 Kasongan made only Grabah, i.e. cooking pots + other household ceramic wares made of ceramic ie charcoal burners, water pots, etc.
at that time, acc. to the Dep. Per, they began making simple painted banks, sold mainly at the Sekaten festival held once a year in Jogja
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mistake: painted banks or celengon of some antiquity; it is the unpainted animals or ukir tempel that began about this time
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About 1970 one of the potters, Ngadia, went away to work for a large
commercial ceramic (factory) company in another district - when the company closed he came home and began teaching the new technique of appliqués ornament which he had learned there
About 1972, then, the make potters of Kasongan began producing terra-cotta animal figurines with appliqués ornament -
Some of these are now lacquered or painted for local tastes, but the simple terra-cotta pots seem most attractive to me
The Kasongan potters have had more outside assistance and interference than any other village in D.I.Y. - I have heard that their designs were improved by A.S.R.I., that the well-known Jogja artist Saptohudoyo was instrumental in popularizing & marketing the figurines at the outset, & that the original potter who introduced the appliqued technique is an ‘anak buah’ of a leading official of the Dep. Per, Jakarta
Recently the Dep. Per. has built /