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museman") + the bakuls who let them know what is selling
- 1 pis (bolt)=30 yard=650 per yard= almost 20,000 Rp per bolt
- 1 pis makes 50 stel selling for between 450(s), 550(M), & 700(L)
- 1 penqusaha kecil can use 2 pis per day ((but probably don't every day))
- they claim that an any given time 1/3 of their capital tied up with bakuls, 1/3 in cloth not yet sewn, & 1/3 in goods not yet sold
-in any given month they are 'libris' ie can't work about 1 wk
- the person at whose house we held our discussion once got a 2-yr loan for 500,000 from BRI
- they expressed a preference for credit going out in May & returned in September, with size of 200,000 Rp each; this covers the lagris season from just before harvest thru [[?]]
- another source of income is as buruh rokok - 1650 people out of 5489 residents work as buruh rokok
- are also 80 traders of daily [[?]]
- 4 main kain merchants are:
    H. MAS UT, H.TAMANI, MICHAIN, KOHWI

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all 4 come from Langardalan section of Kudus 
if buy cloth can pay 50% only in advance 
are no cloth merchants from Purwoani itself 
all the konfeksi buruh go home at night
- very often or usually buruh jahit pick up cut outs from the penguasala & sew at home with own machine
- a lot of buruhs from other [[?]], esp. Padurenan & Prambatan - about 50% from outside 
- price of cloth variable & depends on cloth merchants - if market slow about 400 per yard but before panem they push it up to 650
- if small producers but in [[?]], solo can buy 50Rp a yard cheaper - transport about 2000 (so would have to buy more than 1 1/3 pis to save).
small prod. buy 5-10 pis per wk ((hence buy from merchants not because can't afford transport, but so can get 50% credit))
- konfeksi they sell themselves by taking around to markets in most cases
- 1962-65 was a coop called "Koop.