Knowing More Regarding Javanese Traditional Batik

Nov 20
10:44

2011

Dedy Indrawan

Dedy Indrawan

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Batik is originally from Indonesia, especially Central Java, such as Yogyakarta, Solo, Pekalongan, Cirebon, and several others region. The Batik is very beautiful because mostly, batik is made by skillful batik maker manually. The batik has many motifs and usually the batik makers sketch decorative flowers, birds, butterflies, geometric styles and many others.

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Indonesia has a lot of beautiful things that are admitted by international world. One of the Indonesian’s heritage that is also admitted as the world’s heritage is Batik clothing. Batik has been mentioned as the world’s heritage by the UNESCO. Batik clothing is originally from Indonesia,Knowing More Regarding Javanese Traditional Batik Articles especially Central Java. Batik clothing is widely available in Yogyakarta, Solo, Pekalongan, Cirebon, and many others areas. The Batik is very beautiful because mostly, batik is made by skillful batik maker manually. The batik could be described as painting arts on a piece of cotton woven fabric. Batik is painted on a piece of cloth with size of 2m x 1m. The batik has many motifs and usually the batik makers sketch decorative flowers, birds, butterflies, geometric styles and many others. According to old Javanese documents, batik clothing has a few motifs that are only used by royal families, like Sultan and the family. The motifs that are usually used by the royal families are such as Sido Mukti, Sido Mulyo, Parang, and many more. The batik is made using very conventional tool called canting. Canting is a tool looks like a tiny teapot. The canting is used to take melted wax and brush it to the white cloth to make the batik pattern. The canting is so small that the batik maker needs many times to adopt the wax from the melting pot. The wax is mixed with several natural dyes to create wonderful colors such as blue, brown, dark brown and dark red. To create batik, a batik maker needs a few hours because the batik is made manually using hand and the motif is made one by one carefully and with patience. It makes the traditional batik has more expensive price because it reflects the patience of the makers. There are a lot of types of batik and because of the high demand of batik; people are now making batik using Cap or a copper stamp. The copper stamp is made dependent in the batik motif. The stamp is made sufficiently small to make easier to operate it.  The use of copper stamp make the production of batik will become faster and batik is able to be complete into other handy craft like batik t-shirt. Batik t-shirt and bag are the newest transformations of batik because previously, batik just used by rich family and also the royal families. To buy pakaian batik, you can visit Yogyakarta or Solo in Indonesia. You are able to also try to get the batik from online store from the internet. But, if you want to be sure that you buy the original handmade batik or baju batik, you should visit Indonesia, and visit its traditional maker. You can also visit many beautiful places in Java such as the Keraton (Royal Palace) too.