In the midst of the village is still beautiful and quiet, the sound of wood clashing loud sounds.
The sound comes from weaving activities performed almost every home in the hamlet Sejatidesa, Village Sumberarum Moyudan subdistrict, Sleman, Yogyakarta.
The village has long been known as one of the centers of weaving in Sleman.
By using the tool Weaving Not Machines (handloom) are made of wood, dozens of Sejatidesa most of whom are mothers every day produces stagen.
Sumirah (34) one among the citizens Sejatidesa weavers of cloth used as a belt by the Javanese woman said, the work has been done villagers weaving since decades ago.
Currently, there are about 70 weavers in the village.
"My mother now over 60 years have made stagen her work since she was a teenager," said Sumirah when met at his residence.
Until now, she and her mom still weave is still producing stagen.
With two handloom placed behind their homes, with the patient and his mother named Sumirah Leginem stringing hundreds of strands of yarn into stagen.
Weaving Plain
But since three years ago, thanks to the encouragement and empowerment of the community called Dreamdelion, Sumirah stagen produce colorful and unique motifs.
Both stagen plain or motif, the manufacturing process is the same. Described Sumirah, hundreds of threads to be laid out before inserted into the loom. Setup process is called sekiR thread.
"If you will weave patterned stagen, sekiR process is more complicated. A total of 350 threads with multiple colors to be styled using a certain pattern in order to produce the desired motiff. If stagen polosan, do not need to think about the pattern, "said her.
After disekir, each strand of yarn are laid inserted into the weaving machine one by one. After that, the weaving process is ready to do.
In a day Sumirah, capable of producing woven fabric along 15 to 20 meters with a width of 14.5 centimeters.
"Most of the women here make weaving disambi other household chores. If the focus to do in one day we can produce around 30 meters of woven fabric.
Bags and Bros
If stagen plain is only used as a belt, then for this patterned stagen marketed by Dreamdelion to be manufactured into bags, brooches, purses, and shoes.
On the sidelines of weaving activities Sumirah also received orders to make handbags and brooches.
Moderate to stagen plain this product is purchased by collectors and sold in some traditional markets in Yogyakarta.
Despite the complicated manufacturing process, production stagen Leginem Sumirah and reasonably priced. For the fruit stagen plain with a length of about 9.5 meters the price is only Rp 17.000,- to Rpo. 20.000,-
Moderate to stagen motif price per meter Rp 15.000,- to Rpo. 20.000,-
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