In the first photo we were at Ulawato where they make the most exsquisite lace, this was the girl showing us how it is made with a treddle machine. Holes are cut in the pattern and it is free motioned around each hole. I bought a couple of sets of hankies as the lovely tops do not suit short plump women but they were stunning.
we then went to a place where the Batik was made, I dont know where this was, one day I will find the receipt!!
That is Margaret in the background trying to work out what she wanted to buy.
Here are some of the lovely designs that they do, then some of the stamps that they use, mostly copper made in Java so we were told but some wooden ones too, not as lovely as the Indian wooden ones but the copper ones give a very fine print.
In the next photo this was a huge lump of bees wax that every so often some one would hack a lump off with a machete type of knife, this was then put in the pots over a heat source and used to paint onto the cloth, they had some silk here but a lot was quite a coarse woven cotton.
Last is the indigo vat that is used in so much of the dyeing here.
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