SD1-352
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Genre: Visual demonstration. Theme: Weaving (dyeing Palu'e black). Longge Warene (born approx. 1960) demonstrates the Palu'e traditional blue to black dye process, as it was once practiced by her own mother, who passed away in the early 1970s. The Palu'e overdye blue-to-black process is as follows: After the indigo dyeing, perhaps going through three pots, to achieve a resistent, shiny black colour, they boil the bark of the mangrove moro hae, dried langalidhi leaves, grilled, ripe wuwu fruit (Sterculia foetida, or 'Java olive tree', the seeds extracted. The ripe fruit is black.), firewood ash water (filtered), until the water is red and about half of the original volume. A baked loi tuber (green porang, Amorphophallus oncophyllus) from the wild is mashed and mixed with the red fluid, which is also poured into the kora bamboo container on the yarn. The yarn is squeezed and worked on with the red loi mixture being added. Green porang can also be used for strengthening, starching, yarn after dyeing before weaving. In the above process, the strengthening is done simultaneously with the dyeing. What else green porang does is unknown. As for the function of wuwu, or the Java olive, it can be left out without any noticeable difference. Supposedly, it adds some shine to the yarn. It was used in the demonstration showed in the figures, which used a handspun yarn indigo-dyed three times (three pots) by Mama Meli, Nara. About Palu'e indigo dyeing, see the previous items under the theme 'weaving', for instance SD1-130. The recordings were made by SD at Longge's home, Mata mere, Kéli domain, Palu'e Island, using a Sony handicam and a Samsung mobile phone for the images.
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Palu'e, Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia. Recording made in kampong Mata Mere, Kéli domain.
Palu'e, Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia. Recording made in kampong Mata Mere, Kéli domain.
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