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Rabu, 11 Maret 2009

Kotagede, the silver handicraft makers





Surpassing Lombok, Kendari and Bali, it is undeniably that Kotagede becomes the biggest center of silver handicrafts in Indonesia. In various forms, different silver handicrafts through many stages in a place are made that is located around 10 kilometers of Yogyakarta city center. Since year of 1970's, either in the form of jewelry silver handicrafts from Kotagede household accessories or utensils have foreign tourists attracted.

Nowadays, Kotagede also an opportunity to learn the making process of its, does not only offer the silver handicrafts luxury. As long as three hours to a couple of days a short course offers alternative tour package including designing, making and finally bringing the silver handicraft product you made yourself home. Such a tour package, one of the places you can enjoy is Studio 76.

How designing the jewelry is a preliminary step of the course. To choose the kind of jewelry are free and also its design. The process is continued by transferring and forging the design to the mould. Then the sheet of bronze or brass after being forged, is forged using soft tin. Next, as what you wish, the material is set and polished with silver through the process of plating.

You may choose to learn making silver jewelries if you have more time, that is even more and more beautiful. You must learn first in order to make it, before you polish, to carve the metal sheet as the raw material. You can choose, if you like it, to make jewelries with silver coating at the outer part of which forms resemble woven wires. The more detailed and beautiful of the jewelries, in fact the more valuable they are in other people's eyes.

Those are your right with the all processes of manufacture and design. The instructor will only fix and guide some less beautiful details during manufacturing process. The instructor that have experienced will help you quickly to learn. It will help you much because of supported by foreign language competence of the instructor.

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