Batik Yogyakarta - Indonesian Heritage belongs to the Planet

Indonesia well-known batik since many centuries ago. After that, batik clothing was specially produced for royal families and it was created inside the palace’s wall. There have been special people who pointed to create batik clothing and the patterns they made were decided by the families of sultan or king. During the time, batik was brought outside the palace’s wall. Ordinary people started to know and worn it even with different patterns. Little by little but sure, more people loved batik cloth and they got a concept to build workshop and produced batik clothing for the ordinary people. That was the start line made batik clothes accepted among the people. Nowadays, batik clothing has been admitted by UNESCO as Indonesian heritage, which means that batik clothing is only available and coming from Indonesia. However, it has reached worldwide market because foreign people, particularly who visited the archipelago country interested with the designs offered. Because the market loved it, so there are hundreds of batik clothing patterns recognized. The market of batik itself is also developed; now, batik stores can be found on the web. At the past, batik is so expensive made only particular people could buy it but now, there are alternatives to choose the price tags and the materials used. Silk and cotton are two type of fabrics now widely used by batik workshops to make the variant of their batik more complete. Surely, those fabrics require them to put higher price tags. However, batik is not only applied for decorating cloth because there are other items given this waxing and dyeing method. The most extraordinary is when German automaker, Mercedes decided to supply special sedan with batik pattern to celebrate their anniversary in Indonesia. The public started to realize since then that batik can be put and applied on any kinds of things, including automobiles. Besides car, batik also applied for papers; in tourism destination like Bali, there are crafts from papers with batik designs. There are also ceramics, woods and furniture given batik designs. Basically, batik can be applied for anything; as long as the artist understands how to do it, there are no items refused to be batik. But we have to say that the most well-liked is still pakaian batik or batik clothes. It happens because people still consider that the most suitable item for batik is clothes. It's true because this art was created for it. However, now batik workshops also produce kaos batik or t-shirt. They do it to give more options to buyers who want to have batik on informal occasions. If you are interesting to batik, you can follow this web site or discover the internet space. But, if you want to have furthermore and interested to learn how to batik, you have to visit Indonesia.