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Who says shell or the shell has no economic value. Through the touch of creative hands, shell eggs that have been abandoned can be transformed into lovely craft calligraphy and attractive foreign markets.
Housed in a workshop, at the Crocodile Hole, Jakarta, Susanto Cahyudi develop calligraphy craft made from eggshells. Yudhi Cahyudi who was familiarly called, admits interest in using eggshells as a calligrapher is because he cares for the environment. "Around where I live, lots of trash scattered eggs," said Yudhi, who also was an employee of this private company.
Then, he saw an opportunity of making crafts from egg shells. Yudhi did the collaboration between art and religion as the land business.
Prior to wrestle this effort, Yudhi does have a hobby of drawing and writing calligraphy with paper or computer media. Only in 2009, the inspiration to create art Yudhi eggshells appeared.
Yudhi this spirit continues racing, for two reasons. First, he can get the shells of eggs are free. Second, the raw material is also easy to shell eggs in the search. "Within a week, I could get four big plastic bags," explains Yudhi.
Wanting to preserve the natural color of the eggs, mixing Yudhi no additional coloring materials for the manufacture of calligraphy. As a result, Yudi cultivate only three colors to enhance your craft calligraphy.
All three colors were obtained from three different types of eggs.White skin color obtained from chicken eggs. Brown color comes from the skin of the domestic chicken eggs. Meanwhile, the blue color of skin obtained Yudhi duck eggs.
Calligraphy from the eggshell is also not easy. Yudhi to go through five stages in the manufacture of leather calligraphy of this egg.
First, he must wash the egg shells and dried in the sun to dry."Noteworthy is the drying time, because the painting will remove the fishy smell if the shell is not completely dry," said Yudhi.
When starting the manufacture of this calligraphy, Yudhi chose to make the background or the background image first. Because, if directly make writing the core, the results obtained will be less satisfactory. Background will dominate the picture so that it covers writing calligraphy "form arises later writings," explains Yudhi.
To attach fragments of eggshell, Yudhi only need wood glue as an adhesive. Before going through the finishing stages, calligraphy first smoothed with sandpaper so that the texture out.
To make one craft of calligraphy, Yudhi take up to three days. Not surprisingly, the price tag of the art product is quite expensive.Yudhi sell this one eggshell calligraphy ranges from Rp 500,000 to Rp 1 million. In addition to the level of complexity in the making, the benchmark price also depends on the size.
Only, because not a major work, the production of calligraphy Yudhi also not much. Within a month, he was only able to make ten of calligraphy in different shapes and sizes. Yudhi were counted, the sales turnover generated from sales of calligraphy ranges from Rp 20 million.
Even so, consumers Yudhi already diverse. Not only in demand by consumers in the local or domestic market, calligraphy eggshell is also ogled by consumers in neighboring countries like Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam. Understandably, in addition to the unique, the product of calligraphy is also strong. Because the egg shell contains calcium, so it will not easily fragile by termite attack.
Yudhi said that, in addition to utilizing waste into valuable goods to, the use of egg shells can also absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) as much as seven times the weight of the egg.
In addition to Yudhi, eggshell craft of calligraphy is also occupied by Hendra Setiawan. Men from Martapura, South Kalimantan is interested in crafts made from shells of eggs wrestle after watching a television review on the use of shell eggs. Then, he tried to develop the craft of calligraphy.
Apart from its neighbors, Hendra shells of eggs obtained from merchants martabak that hung around his residence. As a result, in a day, Hendra can collect up to 200 grain shells. "I get the shells of these eggs for free," said Hendra, who began to pursue this business since a year ago.
With the help of several family members, Hendra takes about five days to a week. By the time during this usually results in a model of calligraphy with the size 40 cm x 60cm.
When compared with the price of artificial Yudhi calligraphy, calligraphy price tag of eggshell Hendra's cheaper. He set price of Rp 250,000 for each work.
Although still small in scale, sales of artificial eggshell Hendra calligraphy has been reaching out to big cities in Kalimantan.
But unlike craftsmen products that breathing other Muslims, Hendra and Yudhi can not enjoy the blessings of Ramadan. According to their experience, the closer the month of Ramadan, usually selling calligraphy, calligraphy is stable, and there is no surge in demand.
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