Gerabah Madura

SHAPE OF A TRADITIONAL CULTURAL

One of the works of cultural heritage among the very old, widely spreading and can last up to now is pottery, glassware ie fuel made ​​of ground flora. Pottery is said to have made ​​human life since they settled and began farming several thousand years before the Christian era, now we still get around the corners of the archipelago. not least on the island of Madura. Pottery made ​​by artisans Madura Madura and have common functions and Specials for the life of the Madurese.
Madura pottery types serve as disposable items, decorative items, toys, building materials and economic value, social, magical and others.

Materials and Preparation Location

Madura rich in pottery making is a kind of yellow clay with fine sand. Black clay can also be used but the quality is not good.
All districts in Madura island even got there like at Mandala pottery craftsmen Andulang, Duko new Ru, Force Kangean, Baragung, West Pademawa, Dalpenang Pakaporan, Blega and others. Among well-known is Karangpenang Andulang Sampang and Sumenep. Among these areas there is some sort of agreement to make the goods that have been defined for generations or specialization. With this specialization can be prevented competition. Madura pottery also scolded local peculiarities caused by the expertise / skills of craftsmen, availability of materials, manufacturing techniques and combustion techniques. With specialization and his trademark, many villages are named according to the name of the particular type of pottery.

Tools and ways of making pottery
Madura pottery craftsmen equipment is traditional tools are not much different from those already used in prehistoric times. Common tools are hoes, crowbars, buckets and specialized tools such as:

1. Panombuk or pestle to form spheres stemmed in part forming tool.
2. Panempa or Hammersmith, for forming and smoothing the outside, a piece of board.
3. Pangorek or poker, a kind of long-stemmed slant-eyed sickle to smooth the inside.
4. Panyabugan, container vessels with drops of water to a cloth that easily mashed.
5. Pangeled, a piece of cloth to shape lip pottery.
6. Pangajakan, nyiru similar to sieve the sand.
7. Pangabuan, where ash.
8. Panompal, set aside the ash from burning tool.
9. Wer-kower, pole arch wire leads.
10. Pamatong, a type of knife or wire cutters clay.
11. Pottery kiln.
12. And others.

Manufacturing process in general is as follows.

1. The first supply of materials such as clay and sand are selected carefully.
2. Clay and sand with a certain ratio of water is mixed with the dough.
3. Take a hunk of dough or kopo'an ground.
4. Kopo'an ground and roughly shaped or obstacles.
5. Of badangan formed baganan so started to form the desired object.
6. With pangeled fabric edges or lips so round circular shaped.
7. If that kind of pot or pots made ​​oral or congaban already then cooling it so the wind then make the lower abdomen and separate the parts of the mouth.
8. Belly after making the Rugged molded Hammersmith then smoothed with a poker.
9. Abdomen and jointed mouth piece, and then refined.
10. When the pottery is made ​​eared, or stemmed, also fitted later with spliced​​.
11. Once refined and studied perfection, and then dried in the sun to dry completely.
12. Burned.
13. Cleaned with water and the results are ready-made or marketed. However, for some areas there are still perfecting the paint kind of mud.

Functions and Types.
Results Madura pottery is very diverse in terms of its functions and when it can be categorized as follows:

1. Tool or where cooking rice, for example: polo kontong, sobluk, pateppengan and others.
2. Tool or a place to cook side dishes, such as Katta, kekenceng, dungdung, so, gulbung and others.
3. Place cooking water: kettles, Katta and others.
4. For storage or water makers: Gendi, pelteng, kelmo, patch, bowl, splicing, panyamsaman and others.
5. As a result of a variety of container production: Pakes, kontong, tengtong, juleng, so, keppeng and so on.
6. Place to save: piggy bank.
7. Specific tools: Pacapa'an, padupa'an, pateppengan and others.
8. Versatile tool: pennay, gulmong, kontong, cobik.
9. Auxiliaries: joints, pangobugan.
10. Jewelry, such as pot.
11. Tool toys, such as miniature pottery, artificial bird.
12. Building materials: tiles, bricks, winds, tiles.

Conservation efforts.

Madura pottery users gain many advantages such as low price, anti-rust, easy to clean, reduce pollution and others. Besides, it also can absorb a lot of manpower. Public benefit and long term is to preserve the cultural heritage that has been passed down through generations.
Given these advantages its preservation would have got our attention all the craftsmen and improving the quality of the results so that it remains relevant to the needs of the present.

Source of Referral :

http://kebudayaanindonesia.net/id/culture/950/gerabah-madura#.Uh2EtNInQi4

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