Mbah Supar, a lumber craftman

This 60-year-old man has been in the craft of lumping horse since 25 years ago. He is one of the lumping horse art figures in his village of Kebumen Village Tersono District Batang Stem. The figure has also been widely known, especially in the area SORBANWALI as well as areas of western Kendal district such as Weleri, Cepiring, Plantungan and Pageruyung Indonesia.

The process of making horses luming still done alone by Supar mbah and his wife. If he gets a lot of orders sometimes he helped his friends. The figure who likes to joke really felt when I visited his home. When I asked the reason for this effort, he replied using his local language "awale cake because of kangelan luru jaran bra, from angel lurune lha nyong nggawe dhewek, eeee lha kak Alhamdulillah ana sing seneng, lha koli at peso karo pesong" (initially I really like to play horse pony from childhood, so because I do not have money to buy so I learned to make horse braid itself and because it looks good many who ordered horse braids until now to me) he replied while laughing.

The main raw materials are bamboo and palm tree fibers. The manufacturing process begins cleaning material, drying, forming patterns, hoist hair and then painting. "The most difficult it is at the stage of making a pattern of horse braids and hairstyles that are made from palm tree" he said excitedly explained to me. There are two kinds of horse braids produced by supar mbah, small horse braids for children and adult horse braids commonly used in horse braid or lumping shows in other languages. Price small lumping horse Rp 25.000 - Rp 30.000, while large size Rp 70.000 - Rp 75.000. Duration of manufacture between 1 - 3 days.

Supar mbah principle is not to disappoint consumers so that quality is considered and there is always stock provided. He explained that although there is no stock order there should be because if there are potential buyers who come, they are not disappointed because of the void inventory. This principle is what makes Supar mbah trusted in the affairs of lumping horse craft.

For marketing, there are buyers who come directly or by phone. Not infrequently also friends fellow artists lumping horse also come to market. For its marketing area is still limited to the local area of eastern and western border in the district of Kendal such as Weleri, Cepiring, Plantungan.

His concern is his lack of interest in the young generation to continue this art. "I am old, I hope there is continue to make a horse braid or lumping horse like me. Horse braids should not be lost as a cultural art "he said with great anticipation.