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Ways of making Batik
Originally created in batik top with a white material made from cotton cloth, called mori. These batik is also made on other materials such as silk, poliester, rayon and other synthetic materials. Batik motif formed with liquid wax using a tool called a canting for fine patterns, motifs or brush for large, so that the liquid wax to seep in fiber cloth. Cloth that has been painted with wax and then dyed with the desired color, usually starting from the colors of youth. Immersion and then made to another motif with color or black older. After some time the coloring process, the fabric that has been dibatik dicelupkan to chemicals in the wax for melarutkan.
About Batik
Batik (Batik or word) comes from Javanese "amba" which means to write and "point." The word refers to the batik cloth with a pattern produced by the "night" (wax) is applied to the top of the cloth, so that the insertion of a coloring material (dye), or in the English language "wax-resist dyeing".
Batik is a craft that has a high value of art and has become part of the culture of Indonesia (particularly Java) since long. Javanese women in the past to make them in the skills to make a livelihood, so that in the past to make work is the work exclusively to women, finding "Batik Cap" which allows the inclusion of men in this field. There are some exceptions to this phenomenon, namely the coastal batik masculine features such as lines, which can be viewed on the color "gray Mega", which in some coastal areas is to make work for the common man.
Variety Batik patterns and colors influenced by various foreign influences. Originally, batik has protean style and color that is limited, and some patterns may only be used by certain circles. However, coastal batik absorb various external influences, such as foreign traders and also in the end, the colonists. Bright colors such as red dipopulerkan by the Chinese, who also popularize phoenix pattern. Imperialist European nations also take interest in the batik, and the result is a pattern bebungaan previously unknown (such as tulip flower) and also the things that was brought by colonists (the building or horse-drawn carriage), including the colors of their favorite color as blue. Maintain the traditional batik coraknya, and is still used in traditional ceremonies, usually because each color has a symbolism of each.
Technique has been to make known since thousands of years back. There is no description of the history is quite clear about the origins of batik. Some suspect this technique comes from the Sumerian nation, and developed in Java after brought by Indian traders. At this time batik can be found in many countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, and Iran. In addition to Asia, batik is also very popular in some countries in the African continent. However, batik, which is very famous in the world of batik is from Indonesia, mainly from Java.
The tradition is beginning to make on the tradition from generation to generation, so that sometimes a motif can be identified comes from a family batik. Some batik motif can indicate the status of someone. Even now, some batik motif tadisional only used by the family palace of Yogyakarta and Surakarta.
Batik is an ancestor heritage of Indonesia (Java) is still there. Batik is also the first time introduced to the world by President Soeharto, who at that time the United Nations Conference on batik.
source : http://id.wikipedia.org/
Batik is a craft that has a high value of art and has become part of the culture of Indonesia (particularly Java) since long. Javanese women in the past to make them in the skills to make a livelihood, so that in the past to make work is the work exclusively to women, finding "Batik Cap" which allows the inclusion of men in this field. There are some exceptions to this phenomenon, namely the coastal batik masculine features such as lines, which can be viewed on the color "gray Mega", which in some coastal areas is to make work for the common man.
Variety Batik patterns and colors influenced by various foreign influences. Originally, batik has protean style and color that is limited, and some patterns may only be used by certain circles. However, coastal batik absorb various external influences, such as foreign traders and also in the end, the colonists. Bright colors such as red dipopulerkan by the Chinese, who also popularize phoenix pattern. Imperialist European nations also take interest in the batik, and the result is a pattern bebungaan previously unknown (such as tulip flower) and also the things that was brought by colonists (the building or horse-drawn carriage), including the colors of their favorite color as blue. Maintain the traditional batik coraknya, and is still used in traditional ceremonies, usually because each color has a symbolism of each.
Technique has been to make known since thousands of years back. There is no description of the history is quite clear about the origins of batik. Some suspect this technique comes from the Sumerian nation, and developed in Java after brought by Indian traders. At this time batik can be found in many countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, and Iran. In addition to Asia, batik is also very popular in some countries in the African continent. However, batik, which is very famous in the world of batik is from Indonesia, mainly from Java.
The tradition is beginning to make on the tradition from generation to generation, so that sometimes a motif can be identified comes from a family batik. Some batik motif can indicate the status of someone. Even now, some batik motif tadisional only used by the family palace of Yogyakarta and Surakarta.
Batik is an ancestor heritage of Indonesia (Java) is still there. Batik is also the first time introduced to the world by President Soeharto, who at that time the United Nations Conference on batik.
source : http://id.wikipedia.org/
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