Type of Batik

Classic Batik

Batik has a classic value and the taste of high art, with the execution of complex and time in a week probably thinking. Batik has a classic pattern with certain primary variations of the various motifs, such as parang, nitik, kawung, ceplok, tuntum, tambal, and others. Basic materials such as batik cloth, fine quality white cotton, also white silk cloth, silk batik materials will generate the colors more life.

Making the process of Classic Batik

Almost everyone had to see batik. Even many of them never see a way of making batik. They think that they see in the journey in Java during a visit to a workplace where women batik drawing designs on white cloth with a Canting. This section, which indeed is the implementation of the wax is just one of many processing steps that must be done to make goods named batik.
The step to make classic batik :
1. Preparation
2. Design

Preparation :
White cotton cloth with a width of approximately 110 cm and 240 cm long done previously that can be used for further processing. The process consists of washing, size, spread out in the sun to dry and clobber, a process that takes many days.

Design :
If the cloth is ready for the next process, the motives drawn with the pattern that has been available on paper or directly on the drawing for the batik cloth that has experts. Once the design is made of a given color. But they can also draw a design first surroundings field design that can be covered. How drawing done with a liquid wax out of from canting with form softer spray, while the size of Canting also vary.


Printed Batik

With the development of industries in the textile technique, the way of making batik, batik material and coloring materials basic batik cloth is well developed, so that various types and motive can be produced quickly and in a number of very large. How much faster is the print batik design with a batik-printing machine / rotation of the modern film (printed).

Often, the market area of textiles found with motives such as batik. To distinguish between the original batik with prints batik (imitation batik), the original batik, the color clearly visible on both sides of the cloth. But if only one side of the cloth clearly visible color and the other less visible color, then that is printed batik. Printed batik (batik factory) is an imitation batik, so more cheaper classical batik from modern or created manually (original batik).

However, discrimination such as the above will be difficult if the cloth used is a thin cloth like silk or silk spurious, because the color will appear on both sides almost the same, to distinguish this carefulness in work that is necessary to consider the detailed image, it will be visible and can be differentiated between hand made stroke or made machines stroke

However, each person can buy the capacity and depending on the value of art and that of the goods.