Manufacturing Process of "Labu Sayong"

• Soil were pounded in a mortar feet. After that, it need to be filtered and filtered to separate the garbage and rocks in the soil.
• Make sure the soil is enough clean, it must be kneaded so that it becomes dense. This process requires care to ensure that the soil is to be compact and free of air bubbles.
• The soils then formed into a cylindrical shape to facilitate subsequent processes.

Step 1 Getting the right soil

• Forming is extremely important in producing black pumpkin because the technique that determines the beauty and strength of labu sayong.
• Thumb index also plays an important role in the formation of the labu sayong surface is semi-dry.
• Cylindrical Soil will wreathed into a circle and placed on a plate.
Squeezing ground while turning circle plate. This process is done to increase the soil that formed the body, neck, head and muzzle labu sayong.
• Bamboo spatula used for surface stripping of labu sayong that look the same and smooth. ‘Penepek’ is used to compress the labu sayong body.
• Once the labu sayong body is formed, which has been flattened clay grafted to close the open end. Flat clay will be the site of the labu sayong.

Step 2 Forming

• When the labu sayong is ready, it is smoothed with a spatula bamboo and polished by luru stones. It is allowed to dry before decorated with motifs.
• The motifs are produced with wood stamp to emphasize the labu sayong surface. it is again allowed to dry to burn.

STEP 3 Decoration

STEP 4 (Final step) Burning

• The combustion process is divided into three stages: roasting, baking and glazing. Labu sayong dry enough using the heat of the fire, smoked, dried coconut and a bit of dry wood burned.
• Placed on top of the labu sayong upside down and covered with banana leaves, coconut leaves or mats after smoked.
• Firewood stacked on the bottom of the last lit for the combustion process. This will warm the heat of the fire that was put labu sayong into a bonfire.
• labu sayong which was put in burnt rice husk to get the black color on the surface of the labu sayong.
• Then the bottom or base of pumpkin painted with resin to prevent water from seeping out.
• Labu sayong is left for a while and cleaned before use.