This study examines how the making of clothes and cloth has been related to people’s everyday lives, and its meanings in them by drawing upon cases in the Aceh province of Indonesia. The cases were collected from 2009-2011. We visited workplaces and shops of traditional handicrafts such as songket (supplementary weft weaving), batik, bordir and kasab (embroideries), tailor shops, boutiques, and sewing classes. Throughout Aceh, we found a type of production system in which a woman director (pengusaha) who owns or operates a company or craft studio organizes a group of women workers (pengrajin) to make embroideries, clothes and cloth when they are on hiatus from childrearing and domestic work. We also found that a nation-wide, governmentally-supported organization, DEKRANAS, established in 1981, has been encouraging and promoting the production of local traditional crafts including clothes and cloth, by providing opportunities to transfer skills, to promote marketing and to upgrade designs. Usually women civil officers and wives of civil officers are members of the organization. Some of them think of the work of the DEKRANAS work as “social”, a voluntary contribution to local life. The making of clothes and cloth sustained by the above-mentioned production system and the DEKRANAS in Aceh has survived difficult times (conflict and tsunami) and has contributed to the mental care of people in Aceh. It also seems to have become a thing worth doing especially for the craft-studio owners who realize the importance of traditional culture.

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  The major carotenoids in the decapoda species have been reported to be astaxanthin and astaxanthin esters, while some species contain such other carotenoids as canthaxanthin, in addition to astaxanthin and astaxanthin esters. We have previously clarified that the proportion of the (3S, 3’S) type in astaxanthin optical isomers was higher in the terrestrial coconut crab (Birgus latro ; 50%) than in other marine crabs.
  Although more than 15,000 animals have been reported to belong to the decapoda species, few studies have reported the carotenoids in the edible decapoda species. We analyzed in this study the carotenoids in the red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus), squat lobster (Cervimunida princeps), and Japanese mud shrimp (Upogebia major) (edible decapoda species) in detail for the first time, and determined that more than 97% of them were astaxanthin and its esters. We also clarified the optical isomeric ratio of astaxanthin [(3R, 3’R), (3R, 3’S ; meso), or (3S, 3’S)] in each arthropod, and determined the fatty acid species and their ratio in the astaxanthin esters.

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