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Wax resist dyeing technique in fabric is an ancient art form. Discoveries show it already existed in Egypt in the 4th century BCE, where it was used to wrap mummies; linen was soaked in wax, and scratched using a sharp tool. In Asia, the technique was practiced in China during the T’ang dynasty (618-907 CE), [...]

JAKARTA — Indonesia’s president is pressing the country’s 234 million people to wear batik clothes to celebrate a triumph over neighbour Malaysia in a poisonous feud over cultural heritage. The UN cultural organisation UNESCO is set this week to add Indonesia’s method of making the cloth — through a laborious process of wax-dipping and dying [...]

You can batik silk, cotton, and rayon with the same easy fiber reactive dye and soda ash recipe that is so popular in other forms of hand dyeing. The advantage of this type of dye is that with it, unlike all purpose dye, you can use cool water (that won’t melt wax!), while unlike naphthol [...]

Blue Bird transport companies will replace their driver’s uniform with batik. During this time, the driver’s uniform group “blue bird” was a blue shirt with the logo of the Blue Bird. With this new uniform, are expected to Blue Bird driver may act as an ambassador of tourism. Thus expressed Vice President of Business Development [...]

Typical motif in Banten is a motifs datulaya, base rhomboid-shaped flowers and circles in tendrils leaf textures with a blue base color, pattern variation in textures tendrils of gray leaf at the base of yellow cloth.

With the motive Lung (plants) and flowers with the background or the dasa cecek that are characteristic of Batik Tulungagung. Batik ornamentation typical of the area Tulungagung is a combination of motives motives truntum with ceplok motif or kotang. Thus represents a new motif.

Batik Cap Mori Biru (Batik Kasar) comes from Ponorogo. What makes batik ponorogo wax famous is because of coloration that does not fade. Motifs batik Ponorogo is ornamentation of birds and flowers.

Datulaya derived from Datu and Laya. Datu means prince and Laya is a place to live. Typical motif batik Banten is a motifs datulaya, base rhomboid-shaped flowers and circles in tendrils leaf textures with a blue base color, pattern variation in textures tendrils of gray leaf at the base of yellow cloth.

Lotus flowers grow dirawa and swamps and ponds around the village of Babadan in Paoman. The beauty of the lotus flower is inspiring to all mothers batik craftsmen to drawing motifs Teratai.

Although the process of decorating cloth through the process of batik is found in several regions in Africa or India and even in some South East Asian countries, the batik of Indonesia is unique and unequaled. Indonesian Batik is made in several regions, but the center of the art is Central Java, in cities like [...]