, the cradle of Hindu Buddhist Majapahit Kingdom from the 13th to the 16th century in the Brantas River Valley, Embedded - and probably Java's greatest ancient civilization - there are a number of craft shops that offer fascinating detours when the kingdom of the temple and museum to visit. A popular tourist attraction is Trowulan, southwest of Surabaya between Mojokerto and Jombang.
The Brantas River in East Java is what the Nile in Egypt is an important trade and communication route and site of human activity for millennia. It is not surprising to find here crafts and old skills, such as the temple of which some are at least as old self.
drive along the main east-west road through Trowulan, 13th century capital the Majapahit Kingdom, we note that many of the houses in the village have hung their facades for sale with stone statues. These are newly carved, but the pictures show religious figures dating Islam on this island: Hindu deities - Shiva, Vishnu, Laksmi, Ganesha - Buddha in familiar poses quiet, and characters from the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics. The volcanic stone and granite is used originate in Central Java in the region, where they at least the 8 th century was mined since, provides the building material for the ancient temples of Borobudur and Prambanan.
Exploring the kampung can be on both sides of the main road, a number of established companies conducting seen this craft. A particularly crowded shipping container with carved figures for export to Europe, North America and Australia, and by truck for domestic customers. Locals put the work and skill under the tutelage of a carver. Meteorite-like boulders supplied by pickup truck from Central Java, and in the delivery are broken up into smaller portions enough for carving miniature or larger figures, whichever is necessary, hammering with huge iron clamps in the rock. This back-breaking work is a skill in itself, as a miscalculation, the rock may shatter in unusable smaller pieces.
It seems that the artisans know how the cookie crumbles. A rough approximation of the desired image is first carved, and then slowly, begins crude equipment to take a recognizable figure with form. made the best works in stone of a pink or white shade, carved with the less expensive pieces in igneous granite that has a darker, slightly grainy surface. As the figure gradually more refined, a sander is used to sand paper provides a perfectly smooth texture. What the visitors notice is how easy it well-trained hands in less would just go a little too far with the chisel and take off a nose or a finger. To achieve this, such a fine level of detail of such a crude beginning is truly remarkable.
The village Mojoagung, about 20 minutes on the road to the west to Jombang, lost wax bronze casting in the yards of a practiced Number of kampung houses. This method of casting sculptures is known were practiced in Java since at least 300 BC. Exhibits in the museum show us that the Majapahit Kingdom was a sophisticated society with a class of experienced craftsmen producing religious statues and figurines and ornaments for the upper class. It is quite conceivable that an unbroken tradition of bronze was throwing in this area at least since that time.
A reclining Buddha carved from stone
on a particularly well-established Cottage foundry, gallery shows a wide range of copies of museum pieces, the traditional Hindu Buddhist figures and Majapahit era doorknobs and handles, contemporary dance frogs, reveling cats, any form that can be cast in bronze. Bronze may be with acids at the age, so that they are indistinguishable from museum exhibits, or to a dull or polished patina finishes. Behind her gallery is a series of ramshackle shed where the various stages of the process are carried out. First, we see that a customer existing sculpture or design is molded in solid wax. Then molds are made in wax from the "original". A clay mixture to shape it and later burned in a kiln in another of the shed. The setup looks primitive, but we are reminded that this is an old craft that has never been dependent on expensive equipment.
The Master Bronze manufacturers shows that the clay after firing inside the wax is melted away. In a primitive-looking boiler, a long-handled ladle dipped in a molten 'Bronze' alloy of copper, tin and other recycled metals, and then into the cavity of the clay mold where the wax once was. It remains to harden and cool. Several workers have the task, carefully study the clay hammers reveal open for the bronze in the interior. A team of finishers can chase the metal grinding and fine sandpaper, and the occasional soldering seen over irregularities in the surface. Depending on the customer's requirements, polishing one of the agents is often provide a nice patina. It is impossible to not be impressed and be in awe of the whole operation.
It was in the 1970s that manik-manik (flower beads) were made for the first time in the town of Gambang near Gudo, away from the main road to Kediri. Pearls are part of Indonesian culture; traditional Dayaks of Kalimantan they still carry, as well as strains from parts of Indonesia's eastern islands and decorative at the Museum Date Majapahit era issued beads.
purchased from broken glass Made of factories, or piece by piece collected This is melted with a coloring agent and in combination in a large ball about the size of a grapefruit. This is then stripped with a metal pick in long, very thin rods with a blowtorch at a temperature in the thousands of degrees Celsius. Another operator rotates these rods over a smaller gas flame torch to a thin wire which is kaolin-coated in order to prevent the beads sticking to it. Manage The way the craftsmen perfect spheres, slowly turn out to the bar over the flame whirling is fascinating to watch. With different colored individual seed beads ", which are melted into long, thin rods before use, each pearl necklace is then decorated by hand, swirling or melting colored glass over the surface dotting. On one of the most established cottage industries, the owner has inspired . to create replicas found pearls in other cultures beyond Indonesia His showroom displays hundreds of different designs ready strung as necklaces, bracelets, brooches and earrings, and beads sold separately
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East Java
Province Directions:
in Surabaya fly (several national and international airlines connect here), and a car take Trowulan in Mojokerto regency and then to the villages below Jombang regency
distance from Surabaya .:
2-3 hours
places too. below:
Stone carving: Java sculpture , Jl. Majapahit 3, dsn. Wates Umpak, Trowulan, Mojokerto
Bronze: Ganeysa , Jl. Sanan Selatan 1/36, Mojoagung, Jombang
Beads: pearl flower , Jl. Raya Gambang, dsn. Gambang, Ds. Plumbon Gambang, Gudo, Jombang
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