Education and training in Indonesian Batik intangible cultural heritage for elementary, junior, senior, vocational school and polytechnic students, in collaboration with the Batik Museum in Pekalongan
Batik is anIndonesian method ofdyeingcloth and making it resistant usingwax. Suchfabrics originally come from the island ofJava. Nowadays, batik also can be found worldwide, mainly inAsia andAfrica.
The ancient bronze statue ofDewi Sri Jawa — the goddesses of fertility in Javanese culture depicted wearing batik sarong with thekawung motif (one of the ancient batik motifs)
Batik is an ancient fabric wax-resist dyeing tradition ofJava island (nowadays part of modernIndonesia).[1] In theRamayana—ancientSanskrit epics dated 500BC—, the island ofJava is recorded as the island that already had seven kingdoms long before the story of Ramayana created, and Batik is one of the regarded clothes that have glorious value that originally made by the manufacturers within the kingdoms' environment itself.[2] Batik is a part of an ancientJavanese tradition and has been taught for centuries, the art of batik is most highly developed in Java and some of the best batiks in the world still made there until today.[3]
Due to thecolonialism, batik also became popular in the Western countries, especially since the Dutch colonial era.[4]
This picture shows the person is drawing a batik with tjanting.
To make a batik, they use the cloth as thepaper, and they just start drawing hot wax over the cloth. And they said if we repeated the process, it will be more colorful. For the first step, make sure the cloth is washed. Batik[5] patterns are drawn withpencil and later drawn again using a hot wax. The very common thing that people use is the pen-like instrument called a tjanting. After the cloth is dry, the areas keep their original color, and it also shows the pattern between the areas that have thecolor and do not have the color. It gives them apattern. Then the artist repeats the process once for each color. A verytraditional type of batik, called written batik, is drawn using only a tjanting. The cloth needs to be drawn on both sides and put in a colorbath three or four times. The process may take up to a year.
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