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week + indigo dying done on Sundays

Rens recommends I read:
1. De Kat Angelino - batik report
2. Jaspers on history of various handicrafts
3. Olive Day- The Dutch in Jawa

re Kasongan, she showed me a very fine old statue of man on horseback- predates nkin tempel work - style of  the wedding statues

says celengan for Mulud rather than Lebaran (Mulud is Mohammed's BD)

notes Satohudoya's 1st wife, Kartika, the daughter of Affandi so not surprising Ngadio worked for both

showed me an ikat kemban, tied off but not yet dyed, from city of Solo - uses both aged and bits of pink & green plastic raffia to color - code knots

temple near Tuban called Sendangduwus which may have carvings why relate to wearing ind.

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from mengkudu can get either red or yellow
for red add soga, for yellow add kayu tengerong

10/20 additional questions put to Rens

tukang medel used for men - in Taban where women do indigo during just say 'yarg mercelys' - dying passes down in families from female to female (age not so imp. as ketasuran) 
material dyes from own gardens & agel from gebang palm growing in own fields

gebang = siwalen = raffia palm
agel = raffia

originally the Kepala Desa of a nearby village [[crossed out]] tried [[/crossed out]] with an ATBM industry tried to introduce the ATBM - women rejected because would have to buy cotton yarn which they say is too expensive; their own cotton low grade, short-fiber (about 5 cm) and breaks on an ATBM altho Taban has its own katon,