Story Of Bali, Indonesia

Iron work has in general been limited to cutting and thrusting weapons. Bronze is not hard enough, so the smiths were obliged to rely upon iron for this purpose. Otherwise iron was used only very rarely, when hardness was particularly called for. In southern Sumatra, for instance, we find wrought-iron receptacles for blacking, distinguished both by their shape and their excellent workmanship. These receptacles were formerly used when filing teeth, a ceremony at which the filed-off teeth were subsequently coloured black. These receptacles are shaped in tile form of animals, such as cocks, stags, kerahaus, and snakes. Iron was also used for the manufacture of the so-called pinang scissors, for in this case very solid material was an essential prerequisite.

This art of designing textiles is almost exclusively practiced in Java and Madura. Wherever else in Indonesia it was fostered, the stimulus came from Java. The sole exception is the batik work produced by the Toradja, which we shall come back to later. Basically. the whole process is as follows: a fabric is dipped into the dye-vat, all those parts which are not to take up the colour being covered on both sides with a substance which does not allow the dye to seep through. The whole fabric had to be dipped into the dye because the Javanese only had vegetable colouring-matter, which needed a long time to take effect properly.

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