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90 didn't turn out the venture was successful & the cloth was sold through Hartonos langganans in Bali at the point, however, Hartono apparently ran into financial difficulties (uang seret/sulit) - either Hartono stopped production or Hartono & Kusein quarreled over money matters at any rate [[strikethrough]] Kusein went to Bali and made direct contact with the cloth sellers in Den Pasar & Krianyar - at this point Kusein moved back to Troso and began developing the industry in Troso now Troso cloth is fully accepted all over Bali - they themselves consider the quality is lower than real Balenise weaving, but note the price is cheaper nowadays there is more kain Troso sold in Bali than real Balinese cloth ("kebanyakan kain tenun di Bali berasal dari Troso") -WAGES for weavers (buruh tenun) - paid 90 Rp per meter for Bali cloth [right page] 91 & can weave 5-6 meters a day; get 50 Rp per meter for plain white & can weave 14 meters a day; get 250 per piece for Sumba & can weave 2 pieces per day for dyers buruh celup - paid 200 Rp per pak & can dye 10 paks a day - this work not available every day, however, and usually dyer is a weaver on other days for buruh ikat - this work usually done by children (we saw a space saving bamboo platform in one large establishment where the children work - buruh ikat are paid Rp 100 per plangkon (kotakan) plangkon is a wooden frame on which groups of threads are tied [[margin note]]later saw Sumba style dicocokan & was a warp ikat [[margin note]] (torso ikat is welt ikat) children begin as buruh ikat at age 8-10 (but we saw an older boy in late teens or early twenties being at another house) a child can tie off 1 plangkon in 3 or 4 hours after school. apparently another person paints the designs on the plangkon with