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equipment at the Pusat included drying racs, glass tracing table, dislay cases, caps, dying tubs
some of the dying tubs equipmped with cloth hollers over tubs so can make kain meteran
-TPL estimated about 40 of T.B. cloth sold on local market, rest exported mainly to Jakarta & Suhabaya
-many of pieces we saw very fine, first quality with prices up to 47,000 Rp mainly red & black
cloth at Pusat has a "KUD Tanjeing Bumi" label
-about 10% still using natural dyes:
     blue - nila, tarom
     blac - nila +tarom
     dark red- mergkudie akas pace
     brown - dry abot kelapa
rest use napthal
-quality of dying often poor because dye in wajans or just brush dyes in

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next visited compound of 9 women maing very beautiful hand painted kaeris & sarongs; compound in town, across street from bech road ((look for Tempat Pemandian Laki)) - these women work by own estimate nine hrs a day all year round to finish total of +- 40 pieces ((average 4.4 pieces a yr each))
work under shade of large vine in compound 
sell pieces for maximum of 30,000 each - most of their pieces ordered ahead
-red comes from mengkudu (pace)plant (a yellowish red)
recheck(-this can be mixed w bask of [arit?] (jirek) from Pekalongan area to give darker red
-blue from nila - soaking & drying with nila up to 20 times per piece - nila dying alone takes 2 months
((later heard complaint from Arab batik factory owner in Pamekasan that T.B.  batik overworked & can split out easily))
doubt if so