Fence Canyon Bayat pottery

December 25, 2008 by budiatijavapottery Perbot Putar Miring ala Bayat

Twalking on the pottery, which comes in our mind is Kasongan and Singkawang.  While in fact, there are many other central pottery in this country, one of them is Pagerjurang pottery, Klaten reached also on the world market.

According to its name, Pagerjurang pottery is located in Dusun Pagerjurang, Village of Melikan, sub-district Bayat, Klaten, Central Java. The dusun which is located in the foothill of Jabalkat, about 15 km southeast of Klaten is known as makers of pottery for future generations.   The main product of this pottery central is pot plants, jug, earthenware flask, piggy bank, and the placenta-containing.

The face of the village of Melikan is not different from the other agricultural villages.  An image of a village surrounded by greenly farmland, hill and Marsh and also the people who always greet the conjecture in a user-friendly manner.  Rivers are abundant with water in the rainy and dry season out in season dry. In this natural environment of the village people struggle with clay to make pottery.

Enter the Melikan Village, we will see a welcome door; a shade of village of the pottery manufacturer is very important.  Not more than a hundred metres from the door, shopping line up on each side of the road that shows the various forms of product craft of burned clay. Each store has almost taste similar to the Organization of the display. Wood shelves three cells are arranged in alley. the floor is also organized in chimneys so that it facilitates the display of the pottery so that no other cover. Similar pottery are put in a single line. In this way, the visitor who usually swarms the beginning will be comfortable to choose pottery they love.  A pottery store owner, Mrs. Hirman said that the profit that it gets from the sale of pottery is five hundreds thousands rupiah a day. "During the high season, it is usually twice as normal", she explained.

On average, the shop is used that display for the pottery products.   Although to see pottery process, we should spend our time by visiting the workshops deeply in the dusun.  Along the road of the dusun, pottery manufacturing activities will be clearly not far from the opening of the road.  Line of pottery produced dried in the yard appears to welcome to our arrival.  Some mothers appear occupied the Earth Ball clay from their house in smoothing.  Where males loading a basket with piggy bank linked in series. Sound of the rotation of the wheels is clearly heard behind the wall of the House of bamboo mats when pottery activity takes place.  Almost all people in the dusun are involved in pottery making which is the main occupation of the people in Dusun Pagerjurang.  Each room usually has a workshop and a fire pottery kiln.  Sometimes, a furnace is used by several houses.  During this time, the workshop for the manufacture of pottery sometimes has no place special but integrated with the other rooms, such as dining, family room and kitchen. Can be said that Pagerjurang people are inseparable from the pottery in their daily lives.  They are very intense in the production of pottery is small or large scale for the purposes of export. At leas 2 Pagerjurang pottery containers are shipped to Italia and Australia each month.

In a House with a door open there, one of the residences seems same due diligence in the clump of clay on the plate of shaping a pitcher of winding circle.  In a 5 × 5 meters workshop, he worked between semi-finished jug accompanied by music by stereo whole line. Sketch of product size are not only glued to the pillars of the House but also written in a wall of bricks and cement soil.

While in the other room which is in reality a kitchen, Mrs. Jumirah, aunt of it, is the tuft of clay in a plate of incline winding circle.  "It is a tilted rotation technique, a special pottery making technical which is only found in Pagerjurang," explained Jumirah. In other places, the pottery only decision-making process uses flat rotation technique.

The craftsman to the Rotary clay TIS. While the technique inclined rotation uses the wheel(roda_perbot) pottery of deciduous trees and mahogany wood with a diameter of 35-40 cm and 5-6 cm in thickness placed a few angles bent forward.  Apart from inclined pottery-wheel (perbot), this technique is also equipped with the pedal and the spring of bamboo, which is operated by foot.  The process of rotation of the wheel is assisted by lulup (rope made of tree spade) related to the tree of perbot.  In pottery making, the author deals with the lay in sitting in a dingklik (the stool) in a sideway position.  The plate which is positioned a few angles to consider before making small pottery and short with a maximum width of 23.5 cm and a height of 30 cm.

This limitation is in fact makes the product of the peoples of Dusun Pagerjurang has its unique character.  Uniqueness is supported by the quality of the clay in Pagerjurang which is that it is much better that the clay in another zone and, consequently, the product is smoother, slimmer and use no connection.  The technology of pottery, which has increased since the era of Sunan Bayat in the 1700s contains high ethical values.  With the spread of Islam, Sunan Bayat has also taught the ethical way of life based on harmony and the spirit of cooperation.  Principle of harmony and the spirit of cooperation is implemented in the smallest: a family. In a family of pottery manufacturer, there is a division of labour between the father, mother and children.  The father, for example, has a job to find and collect the clay, burn the pottery, and then to sell, while children help to dry the wet pottery.  While the mother has a job of transforming the clay into pottery products.

Technique of rotating slanted is estimated to grow as one of the responses of the two issues: to facilitate the process of production that is usually done by women and also their allow to do the work based on the applicable ethics.  Ergonomic, inclined rotation technique facilitates the women who were at that time long wears kebaya. From an ethical point of view, also required to defend the values of the riders sitting on the side and showing does not their thigh clay processing. In addition, the technique of inclined rotation also facilitate clay to spread due to gravitation, and the product may be more rapid processes in large quantities without the need of both power such as that required by the flat rotation technique.  A product of pottery must on average only 3 minutes to complete.  At the moment, most of the artisans in Pagerjurang still use the technique of rotation angled and some of them equipped with technical flat rotation.  The trace of the intelligence and wisdom of the ancestors will be retained even if the modification of the time.

Source: Travel Club Magazine

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