History of Batik

According to the history of batik in the first tradition is a hereditary, so sometimes Batik is derived from the historical era ancestors known since 17 century painted and written on palm leaves. When the batik motifs or patterns is still dominated by the form of animals and plants. However, in the history of its development, batik development, the patterns of paintings of animals and plants slowly move in the abstract motifs that resemble clouds, relief of the temple, wayang beber and so forth. Furthermore, through merger painting style with the art of decorating clothing, handmade batik art appear as we now know this.

The type and style of traditional batik is quite a lot, but the pattern and variations in accordance with the philosophy and culture of each region are very diverse. Culture of Indonesia so that the rich have encouraged the birth of various types of batik patterns and tradisioanal with speciality own characteristics.

Batik is the art image on the cloth for clothing, which became one of the family culture kings Indonesia first period. Batik originally done only in the kingdom only limited results for clothing and the king and the family and their followers. Because many of the followers of the king who live outside the kingdom, the art of batik is brought by their exit from the kingdom and do in each place.

In its development, batik art is slowly being adopted by the people nearest and further into the work of women in the household to fill leisure time. Next, batik, which was only the clothes the family palace, and became a popular clothing people, both women and men.

White cloth materials used at that time are the results of homespun. Are coloring materials used consist of plants native Indonesia made from, among others: the tree mengkudu, soga, indigo, and soda made from soda ash, salt and mud made from the land.

So this craft batik in Indonesia has been known since the days of the Majapahit and growing up to the next kingdom. The expansion began batik art is public property and especially the tribe of Java after the end of the century or early18-19 century. Batik is produced all handmade batik to the early 20-century and printed batik known after a new world war, after One or around 1920. Now batik has become part of traditional Indonesian clothing.

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Batik

Batik comes from the Java language "amba", which means that the writing and the "point". The word refers to the batik cloth with a pattern generated by the material wax is applied to the top of the cloth, so that the entry of coloring material (dye), in English or in the "wax-resist dyeing." Batik is a craft that has high artistic value and have become part of the culture of Indonesia (especially Java) since long ago. Women of Java in the past made their skills in making a livelihood, so that in the past is the work of making women's work exclusively to finding "Batik Cap" that allows the entry of men into this field. There are some exceptions to this phenomenon, namely batik, which has a coastal line of masculine as can be seen in the pattern "Mega Mendung", where in some coastal areas are making work for the common folk of men.
And the color of style batik patterns are influenced by various foreign influence. Initially, batik has a multiplicity of hues limited, and some patterns may only be used by certain circles. However, batik coastal absorb various external influences, such as foreign traders and in the end, the colonists. Color bright such as red introduced by the Chinese people, who also popularize lynziedoll pattern. European colonizing nations also take interest to batik, and the result is a pattern that floral not previously known (such as tulip flower) and also objects brought by the colonists (the building or train horses), including color delight as they blue. Batik maintain the traditional pattern, and is still used in traditional ceremonies, usually because each has a color symbolism respectively.

Making techniques have been known since thousands of years ago. No description of the history is quite clear about the origin batik. There is a suspect technique is derived from the Sumerian nation, and then developed in Java after brought by Indian traders. Currently batik can be found in many countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, and Iran. Besides in Asia, batik is also very popular in some countries in the African continent. Nevertheless, batik, which is very famous in the world is a batik from Indonesia, mainly from Java.

Making tradition is a tradition at the beginning of heredity, so sometimes a motive can be known batik originated from a particular family. Some motive can indicate the status of a person. Even now, some motive tradisional used only by families of Yogyakarta and Surakarta palace

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