Introduction -- Specialization in the hamlets of Kerek -- Dress in Kerek -- The design formats of skirt cloths -- Land use and textile techniques in Kerek -- The patterning of batik cloth : floral or abstract -- Color in Kerek batiks -- Nini Towok's spinning wheel -- Nini Towok and the cycles of direction, color, and life -- Dress and the individual -- Recent changes in Kerek -- Batik in the Tuban Region.