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1. built up legs first, then body
on the "perbot" or hand-turned
wooden wheel
2. appliqued [[strikethrough]] decoration
to body (body & legs hollow)
3. head applied & decorated
4. figure dried in shade, at least
[[strikethrough]] a week (can be kept up to
1 year, acc. to Pak Buang, before
pairing, as long as don't get
wet)
5. fired a half day
firing materials are twigs (kaya
kecil), rice straw (damen), dry
leaves of all sorts
- firing only done once a month,
firing materials purchased from
people who collect & cpme
around selling
if a big firing use up Rp 1500
worth of materials, if a small
firing Rp 1000 worth
((Masni didn't ask but steps 6 & 7
are probably refiring in case of
black figures & vanishing in
case of vanished figures.))
- large figure takes a single
pengrajin 2 days to make ((no
division of labor apparently))
- smaller house figure 1 day


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- can make 2 flower vases a day
-Pak Karyo's gubu[[strikethrough]]g doesn't
make grabah, but said that
a pengrajin grabag can turn
out 15 kwali a day
- tools at Pak Karyos place:
  4 perbot
  2 cukit (bamboo sticks,
    flat & pointed at one
    end, used in applique
    work
  1 bucket [[strikethrough]] for water (clay
    must be kept damp,
    appliques moistened
    before applying)
- Pak K. born & raised in
Kajen; cannot recall any
beginning of the industry, but 
says handed down from 
ancestors ("nenek moyang")
- Pupuk began working on ceramics
at age 5 but only the plain
banks (celengan) without ukir
tempel
about age 10 learned ukir tempel
technique ((came into the
area about 1968 - check with
Ngadio))
- father of Pupuk also a pengrajin;
Pupuk began working at Pak K's