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32 [[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 [[end page]] [[start page]] 33 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