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midday the men return from work in the fields and partake of a hot lunch
of rice and chilli sauce, eating its silence by hand from a banana leaf.
Water is normally drunk after the meal. The women cat after the men have
finished. In the afternoon the men will sleep or chat in the bale band jar before returning to work in the late afternoon. During this rest period many of the men will be seen gently massaging and fondling their fighting cocks. The women spend the afternoon weaving, threshing rice, or delousing one another's hair, a pastime that can be seen going on at almost any time. Hand weaving is an art widely practised by the women of the village, and it may be seen being carried on in the pavilions attached to the larger houses and palaces, in many of the wayside galleries where paintings and carvings arc exhibited (Plate 22), and in many temple precincts. The cotton used is spun and dyed locally. The Icon is of the very simplest type. A wooden frame supports a beam on which the warp is tied, the other (woven) end being attached to a bamboo roller in front of the weaver. This stick is tied at each end to the ends of a springy bow-shaped yoke supported from the weaver's back, so that by leaning backwards the warp is tensioned and by leaning forwards it is slackened. The weft is carried in a bamboo shuttle which is passed from side to side by hand, the warp threads being alternately raised and lowered by hand-tied healds and field in position for every weft motion by a bamboo stick. A hand operated comb is used to consolidate the weave. Plain striped patterns are produced by selected colours in the warp or weft or both, but there is one traditional style of weaving still seen in Bali which is of special interest. This style of weaving employs a method known as ikat. The weft, dyed to the colour of the pattern, is assembled on a frame of the size of the piece of cloth to be woven. The desired pattern is then delineated by wrapping water-impervious fibre around the threads. The weft is then redyed to the base colour of the cloth, the protected threads remaining |
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