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Thank you and thank you Market friday community. I can share experience in this community. On Friday walk to City center not far from my live.
The seller of handicrafts is located on the main street of the City of Sukabumi, West Java. There are not many sellers of handicrafts, one of wich is the one I visited.
This handicraft seller only resells handicraft products whose craft manufacturing location are not far way. This handicraft sale location is on the side walk and in front of the money changer .
Quite busy on the main road and only certain visitors who stop by the handicraft seller understand handicraft as art. When I come to this handicraft seller, the merchant was arranging the handicraft.
Various kinds or art item are sold, such as bags, hats, wich are made from jute tree fiber,and then sells bracelets from the jenitri tree. Necklaces made of knitied yarn, and many of the accessories that are sold are handicrafts.
image source, jute and jenitri trees.
I saw hats, bags, from the burlap tree, burlap is a material that has a rough texture. The burlap material is made of strong fiber. Natural fiber used are second only to cotton, jute plants are almost widely planted in tropical and sub tropical seasons.
Burlap is usually used for storing grain, for packing rice, sugar and so on. There is also burlap cloth that is sold by the meter which is used for industrial crafts.
Then there are handicraft that are sold, namely bracelets made of jenitri trees, Rudraksha (India) is a habitual plant, a tree that produces unique seeds and is often used in Hindu and Buddhist worship.
This tree has a hight of about 30 meters, jenitri fruit is a green round buni fruit and produces dark brown round seeas. Seeds that be come commodities are used to neutraluze air poultans and according to information ,jenitri fruit can be used for traditional medicine.
The item for sale are fine hand art, there are other crafts made from threads that are made from threads that are made into art and then given accessories such as gemstones, animal bones, for necklaces, made by crafts.
I tried to ask the price for sale, such as hats made from jute plants. Offered as a price of Rp 60.000,-( sixty thousand Indonesia rupiah). That I bid a price of Rp 40.000,- ( forty thousand rupiah).
The seller a greed with the price of Rp 50.000,- ( fifty thousand rupiah) the price is quite cheap when compared to the length of manufacture. Then the price of a bracelet made of jenitri tree offers a price of Rp 30.000,-( thirty thousand rupiah) and is offered of a price of Rp 20.000,- ( twenty thousand rupiah).
The price of other handicraft with a burlap, and bought a craft in the from a bracelet made from the seeds of the jenitri tree.
Thank you very much.