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nearby visited house of indigo dyeing family - craft passed down from mother to daughter.
mother still does indigo work I saw ceramic pot of the dark blue - black paste
her daughter, [[strikethrough]] hous [[/strikethrough]] however, is one of the two girls who do red dyeing in front of the [kalurakan?] under roofed-over shed - red is a wine red imitating mengkudu but comes from naphthal - shifted from mengkudu to a chemical red in 1920's (not napthal - - naphtal is recent) but have never shifted to chemical substitute for nila
hence cloths are dyed with a combination of natural + chemical dyes
indigo plant grown in houseyard
dye made from leaves - saw large pot with leaves soaking, stones to hold them down, in one yard
2 girls doing red dying have long wooden dye vats, coffin-shaped, supplied under Dept Industry project
no ATBM's being used, tho lurah's 


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wife rather uneasy & not wanting to be straightforward about this;
apparently a lot of govm. pressure to changeover which women are resisting
full-time Dinas Per. person (male) assigned to the kalurahan to "membantudesa" (words of lurah's wife, repeated several times over) - in addition to helping with textile crafts, also teaches tempe - making + several other income-generating activities plus leads PKK

all batik done free-hand, no pre-drawing
men are tani (this in response to a question about what the men do) - grow peanuts, kacang koro, kacang tolo, corn, a little tobacco mainly for own use - tried to get some income and production data, as follows:
need 5 or 6 tukel (hanks) of yarn to make 1 cloth
takes 5 or 6 weeks ((seems long)) to get this much yarn ready and starched for weaving
women work about 6 hr a day in dry season and can produce about