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Craft Clothes Sorjan

Liputan6.com, Yogyakarta: For the people of Central Java, is sorjan custom clothing for men, usually to wear headgear combined with the so-called headcloth. also incomplete if not equipped with slippers slippers as footwear. But now along with the times, not many people found sehar Java-day use sorjan clothes. Exception to the traditional events such as circumcision and marriage.

One khusu clothes tailor sorjan still active up to now is Adi Kartono. Kulon Progo Demangan citizens are already more than 60 years in the art of making clothes sorjan. Adi continued efforts that have been pioneered parents were hereditary. To make clothes sorjan, customers usually bring the cloth along the 1.5 to 3 meters. Sorjan manufacturing cost is relatively cheap around USD $ 35,000 to Rp60.000.

Adi Kartono was never bored or recede to continue making sorjan. According to him, making sorjan not merely for a living, but it was a way of life. Adi was determined to preserve sorjan clothes, although now rarely worn by the people. Right now only found sorjan user environments Palace court servants, or those who want to preserve the Javanese way of life. Adi Kartono expect a son to inherit his efforts to preserve Javanese culture. (ARI)