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[[strikethrough]] color which comes from a dye
made with tinggi bark - the
bark is pounded & then boiled
up to get the dye - the dying is
uneven, probably because done
in wajans - background of
these cloths is rust from tinggi,
but some spots of other [[strikethrough]] colors painted in with napthal dyes

Madurese batik mainly very dark
navy combined with one or another
shade of red - in Kotah use
napthal garam R for red and biru B
for blue
if Pak Haji has money he pays
people in advance for their pieces,
i.e. before he sells them
next Pak Haji showed us a
couple of rooms in back of
his house where women make
batik sitting on low bamboo
platforms - only 2 or 3 women
were working when we looked in
but he says 25 women regularly
work at his house & dye their
pieces at his house too - he
refers to these women as "buruh" &
says he controls their work ("kontrol
dari saya") - (perhaps it is these 25
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women he is refering to in the note on
p. 31 - not clear)
Pak Haji says his buruh perpotong;
one buruh can finish 4 pieces
rather rough quality a wk.
children age 9 & up also make
batik in the after-school hours
Pak Haji just delivered a large load
(5 kodi = 100 pieces) to an agen in 
Surabaya - the agen would like to 
have that amt. at least 1 x a wk.
-Pak Haji buys tinggi himself from
Kedongdong 

[[left margin]] ie he goes to ked to pickup tinggi [[/left margin]]

((Kedungdung - the
blacksmithing village next visited));
he gets napthal from Surabaya

are some other small industries in the village:
3 unit bata putih (limestome blocks)
20 units kapur (slaked lime)
3 units genteng
5 pandai besi
virtually no agr. income in the
village
apparently was a kapur project
slated for Kotah, but cancelled
because of rise in price of MDF
per tangki 147,000 Rp formerly (when?)
           200,000 Rp now