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64 2 finished cloths on ave. in rainy season only work 1-3 hr. a day + can finish ≠ 1 cloth - weaving takes about a week, as does waxing for a piece to be batiked - red dyeing can be finished in a day but nila dipped 2-7 times + takes 2 weeks or more depending on weather in rainy season if busy in fields may work evenings about 50% of families landless ((this from Ibu Kurah, I doubt its accuracy)) many widows and these live mainly from spinning, weaving, etc - they made a joke + said many divorcees too little outmigration from the village, a few work in Tuban apparently moving from indiv. production for own needs to division of labor oriented toward commercial prod. many make whole cloth from start to finish - many others specialize in either spinning (memintal), weaving or batiking cotton is all grown tada hujan + crop varies acc. rainfall [[end page]] [[start page]] 65 BL - one woman we talked to buys her yarn already spun and then weaves + batiks her cloth - she pays a sum for pencelupan to the dyers - she estimates that her profit per cloth is 1000 Rp after deducting cost of yarn, wax, starch (while weaving more starch is wiped on w/ fingers) and fee to dyers if she produces 2 cloths a month her earnings are about 66.6 Rp a day or 11.1 Rp per woman hr. [[strikethrough]][[?]][[/strikethrough]] other activities in the village include: 1. [underline] 3 blacksmithing perapens [/end underline] - we stopped at one on the road out standard, w/ 2 panjak - mud fire [[guard arrow pointing to 2 concentric arches]] [[/image/drawing]] guard covering pipe leading from ubub at point closest to empu's hand making farm tools from rel- charcoal from genteng villages to the south (away from coast) - hence is partly burnt out 2. were told that while villages to north make textiles, villages to south make genteng + batu bata [[left margin]] Jurahs wife insisted is a samben but everyone we saw working on it altho rainy season [[/left margin]]
