SEJARAH KERAJINAN KULIT DI KELURAHAN SONOREJO, KECAMATAN SUKOHARJO, KABUPATEN SUKOHARJO, TAHUN 1970 – 2016 M

Sonorejo is one of the areas in the Sukoharjo district that made handicrafts animal skins through home industry. Leather handicrafts are produced puppet on cow and buffalo leather since the 1970s. The market of handicrafts leather distributed to souvenir centers outside Sukoharjo City. Most of the puppet crafts are made to fulfill the puppeteer's orders for performances. This narrow marketing circle provides other innovation for craftsmen to make new crafts, namely calligraphy. In 1980 the craftsmen went to various areas such as Jakarta, Bandung and Surabaya to learn to make calligraphy using goat skin as media. The economic crisis that occurred in 1997-1998 led to a decline in the production of shadow puppets in several home industries in Sonorejo, which eventually led to many craftsmen turning to new innovations, calligraphy. Based on these reasons, this scientific study intends to analyze and describe the conditions of the leather handicrafts in Sonorejo Village and the dynamics of the development of the leather industry in Sonorejo.