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About Blumbang

A small workshop that turned into a window.

We started by printing shirts by hand in a small studio in Jeto, Klaten. We're still doing exactly that — only now, the people who make the other beautiful things around us come with us into the world.

Blumbang is a screen-printing studio. That's where it began, and that's still what we do every day — ink, mesh, cloth, by hand.

But Klaten is full of people making extraordinary things quietly: women drawing batik line by line, families shaping stone from the slopes of Merapi, hands weaving things machines will never match.

We grew up beside them. So when the world started asking where to find work like this — real work, made by real hands — we already knew exactly who to call.

What we hold to

Three things we won't bend on.

01

We pay what the work is worth

Not what the market lets us get away with.

02

Quality, never rushed

We turn down work that would force a corner to be cut. Slow isn't a weakness here. It's the point.

03

Neighbors, not brokers

We don't scrape a marketplace for the cheapest supplier. We know these people. We sit in their homes. Want to reach them yourself? If they're willing, we'll connect you.

The hands behind Blumbang

The people who are usually uncredited.

Most workshops never name the people at the bench. We start with them. Each one speaks for themselves below — in their own words, in their own language. We left it exactly as they said it.

Bu Mur at the Blumbang workshop
The Steady Hands
Bu Mur
2023 —

"Sepuluh resep masakan terenak sudah di tanganku."

"Ten of the tastiest recipes already live in these hands." The same hands that finish the garments.

Bu Har at the Blumbang workshop
The Easygoing
Bu Har
2023 —

"Aku duwe tape ketan."

"I've got some tape ketan." A quiet offer of homemade sweet rice — the way you're welcomed in a Javanese home.

Ria, operations at Blumbang
The Relentless
Ria
2025 —

"Meskipun nggak fasih Jawa, sing penting wani ngeyel."

"My Javanese isn't fluent — what matters is I dare to keep at it." The one who answers when you message.

Paijo, tailor at Blumbang
The Backbone
Paijo
2023 —

"Menjahit pakaian untuk merajut dunia."

"Sewing clothes to stitch the world together." When he's not at Blumbang, he's letting out fishing line somewhere quiet.

Bang Arie, screen-printer at Blumbang
The Fighter
Bang Arie
2023 — 2024 · 2025 —

"Tinta di tanganku lebih tua dari toko sablonmu."

"The ink on my hands is older than your print shop." Screen-printing since 1998. Every shirt passes through him.

Yoshi, newest member at Blumbang
The Almost Graduate
Yoshi
2026 —

"Kenapa hidup harus ada skripsi?"

"Why does life have to come with a thesis?" The youngest at the bench, learning the digital side fast.

Betchak at Blumbang
The Problem Maker
Betchak
2022 —

"Mie ayam enak iki."

"Now this is good chicken noodle." Started the whole thing. Still happiest over a good bowl of mie ayam.

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We just want to light a small lamp from Klaten — and watch it glow somewhere in your part of the world.
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