Friday, June 24, 2011

BATIK,BEAUTIFUL TRADITIONAL CRAFTS FROM EAST


Following on previous post discussing recipes from the east of nasi goreng,memorable cuisine from east ,now we will discuss about  the asian culture that is about batik.Batik is a fabric which a picture of folk handicraft in most Asian countries.India,Ceylon,Japan,China and Indonesia have a batik history.There are allegations of batik originatif from India and Ceylon but there is an opinion that is a local native traditional craft.To remember ,there are areas that have tradition of batik but doesn’t include areas influenced by hinduism and budhism ,religion which was brought from India and Ceylon.For example Flores,Toraja and Halmahera in Indonesia.
  
Indonesian batik using wax –resist dyeing tehnique that prevent staining fabrice using wax infiltration.Batik has known from the 13th century that was originally kind of batik is done by hand  and then entering industrialization era seal discovered using a technique called batik prints.At earlier time batiks is a job for women and after discovery of printed batik man go do it,Because the stamp printed batik use tool that quite a bit heavy so it takes considerable force.As tradition,batik is done for generation that are found to special design of motif that can be known from a  family where the batik is made.Batik name is comes from the javanese ”amba”meanings is made,and “tik” meaning is dot”.Dot in this case means a sign or symbol.In Java this craft is progressing proudly.At this time  its daily clothes.There is interesting where  there is motif is only allowed in wearing  nobility and the ordinary people should not wear itSo..,different from batik which used also vary in rank .After a long time just resting on a dark colour like brown,black and maroon,entered 17th century there are variations in colour and design motifs,it caused interaction with other cultural.such as china that carries red colour
and also the Dutch who introduced flower design motifs.From two types of batik,original batik has more value because authentic hand made.At the first,batik using a white fabric of cotton,it’s called mori.This time rayon and silk used too.
Indonesian batik as a whole of techniques,technologies and development of culture-related motifs have been recognized and designated as a UNESCO as masterpiece of the oral and itangible heritage of humanity in September 2009. There are some city that became a center of batik productions in Java,Indonesia such as Solo,Yogyakarta,Pekalongan,Tegal,Banyumas and Banjarnegara.Here’s an example of one of the city of batik,batik banjarnegara.
   
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