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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 15th December 2009, 06:47 AM
Replies: 41
Views: 22,806
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If you examine closely is it watercolour and ink...

If you examine closely is it watercolour and ink covered by a spray varnish? This method of sungging began to become common in the 1980s.
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 9th March 2009, 04:39 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 8,498
Posted By Kiai Carita
That piece of paper looks like it was written by...

That piece of paper looks like it was written by a person who went to school in Indonesia after the 1980s. Before that the handwriting of schooled people here was better, with proper thick and thin...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 3rd February 2009, 07:57 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 5,179
Posted By Kiai Carita
Raden Saleh, the father of modern Indonesian...

Raden Saleh, the father of modern Indonesian painting. His home in Cikini, Jakarta, is now the TIM art centre.
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 11th January 2009, 02:16 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 7,890
Posted By Kiai Carita
Indonesian wages, sorry OOT.

Ben, I don't know where or when you got these figures, but just FYI, the amount you wrote there is way beneath the minimum wages here. If currently someone is paying those wages, they should be...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 30th December 2008, 11:25 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 5,739
Posted By Kiai Carita
Not Jawa and not Arabic

It is not Jawa script, and neither is it Arabic. Might not be a scrip at all.
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 23rd December 2008, 03:14 AM
Replies: 43
Views: 17,719
Posted By Kiai Carita
So far, only Pak Alan has revealed the esoteric...

So far, only Pak Alan has revealed the esoteric power of his dream keris - to make him win the Lotto or become a king of a small country.

What would other forumite's ideal tuah be?

I'm still...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 22nd December 2008, 12:11 PM
Replies: 43
Views: 17,719
Posted By Kiai Carita
What would pamor kulahbah look like? I know the...

What would pamor kulahbah look like? I know the swagman song but have never seen a kulahbah tree - what part would make the pamor design?

I knew an Australian wood craftsman once who made bowls...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 22nd December 2008, 03:45 AM
Replies: 43
Views: 17,719
Posted By Kiai Carita
The contrast and the brightness of the pamor in...

The contrast and the brightness of the pamor in these kerises is better than any keris or photograph of a kerises that I have ever seen. Are they really this bright in real life? What causes the...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 17th December 2008, 05:48 AM
Replies: 43
Views: 17,719
Posted By Kiai Carita
an Mpu or not an Mpu

Lemmy, no real Mpu would call himself or herself an Mpu. So by saying that you would not call yourself an Mpu, it shows that you might be one!

I really like what I have seen of your work, and as...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 17th December 2008, 05:44 AM
Replies: 43
Views: 17,719
Posted By Kiai Carita
tangguh kangguru dhapur mlumpat

Tangguh Khangguru dhapur mlumpat might be appropriate Pak Alan. Maybe it would have a winking kangaroo head instead of a tlale gajah.

As this is only fantasy, I would have no problem in paying...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 14th December 2008, 02:25 AM
Replies: 43
Views: 17,719
Posted By Kiai Carita
My dream keris

I would want a Carita with 11 luks.

It would be kelengan without pamor made in the Majapahit style. I would want it to be slender and gracefull and light but very sharp and very strong. The...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 22nd May 2008, 03:56 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 25,329
Posted By Kiai Carita
Not all apes are Hanuman

And not all demons are Rahwana.

I have been meaning to say this since reading the togogan thread a few weeks back. Not all apes are Hanuman, and in Bali, Sugriwa and Subali (both red and kings),...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 23rd April 2008, 03:21 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 6,087
Posted By Kiai Carita
Hanacaraka and the deat of basa Jawa

Pak Alan,

Your respected source is correct, but the current spelling should be slaka rather than sloko. The letters are text-book and there can be no confusion in the reading.

The spelling...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 18th November 2007, 08:46 AM
Replies: 55
Views: 36,388
Posted By Kiai Carita
Aji Saka

If you like, Alan... I am interested in commenting on the mention of Ajisaka. Who was and why Ajisaka? My intuition is that Ajisaka is the personification of "the knowledge of the pillar(s)" similar...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 17th November 2007, 11:35 PM
Replies: 55
Views: 36,388
Posted By Kiai Carita
Aksara Bali and Kres

Pak Alan,

I am certain that I have read somewhere, that the first inscriptions of keris mention it as KRES, and experts who analysed the prasasti were convinced that kres means keris. I notice...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 17th November 2007, 11:21 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 7,417
Posted By Kiai Carita
Damascene and Pamor

Dear forumites,

I have heard that pamor ios damascene, and also I have heard that the two techniques are not the same. Which is the truth can anyone explain the difference if there is any?
...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 14th November 2007, 05:11 AM
Replies: 55
Views: 36,388
Posted By Kiai Carita
As the first found inscriptions that mention...

As the first found inscriptions that mention keris call it kres, it might be safe to assume that from the beginning the greneng was called a greneng. The Balinese alphabet does have a dha, by the...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 13th November 2007, 06:53 AM
Replies: 55
Views: 36,388
Posted By Kiai Carita
meanings

Hello,

A very interesting discussion. While thinking about the symbolic meaning and function of the greneng, it might be appropriate to keep in mind that the meaning of greneng is also "to...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 15th September 2007, 04:08 AM
Replies: 141
Views: 58,729
Posted By Kiai Carita
Gusti Djoeminah

Raden Usmen,

As far as I know there is no unbravery in scrabble...Maybe Alan can help us here being a true-blue native speaker. But oral history about a crown-prince who lost his throne to...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 14th September 2007, 06:15 AM
Replies: 141
Views: 58,729
Posted By Kiai Carita
Gusti Djuminah

Salam Raden Usman,

I think that you are refering to Gusti Djuminah, who would have been HBVIII but instead was put under house arrest (kurantil) untill he died short after the Japanese occupation....
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 17th July 2007, 05:41 PM
Replies: 255
Views: 88,252
Posted By Kiai Carita
Interesting point about Putri Cempa. Cheng ho's...

Interesting point about Putri Cempa. Cheng ho's armada visited Majapahit and Tuban though... there was a lot of Chinese influence during the times when China ruled the waves. Also it appears that to...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 14th July 2007, 03:01 PM
Replies: 255
Views: 88,252
Posted By Kiai Carita
Magnets? Yin-Yang?

Salam keris everyone,

I am not very clever and often put both my feet in my mouth but I don't think that magnets (besi berani) have anything to do with keris spirits, unless you trust the wierd...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 13th July 2007, 01:13 PM
Replies: 141
Views: 58,729
Posted By Kiai Carita
Pilisium

Pak Ganja,

I am very interested in the pilisium wood. The pendok is amazing - I have never seen anything like it. I am currently creating a traditional kebun of aroun 3,5 hectares in a remote...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 10th July 2007, 06:48 AM
Replies: 255
Views: 88,252
Posted By Kiai Carita
The Sultan was in fear that Arya Penangsang was...

The Sultan was in fear that Arya Penangsang was plotting to become King of Jawa. Arya Penangsang was killed through the strategy of making his horse uncontrolable, but even when badly wounded he...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 10th July 2007, 04:51 AM
Replies: 255
Views: 88,252
Posted By Kiai Carita
The death of Arya Penangsang +

Mas Usman, sorry for not yet responding to your PM, but yes, I have some other translations of macapat (read four) songs. However these are still changing, it is not easy to get the English to be...
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