Motifs from the Pekalongan Old & Modern


Exploring types of motives and types of modern batik making us a little unnerved by the efforts of our friends to keep in Pekalongan batik still exist in the eyes of the people of Indonesia in particular. We recognize, in addition to the material side is expected as income, they still deserve our effort to appreciate, why?

1. Friends in the Pekalongan at least still try to make batik is still there. Although some are more concentrated into a modern-style batik production, but they still produce batik, one of Indonesian culture, which was thought to be extinct soon.

2. Compared to some areas that let the region become extinct just Batik, Pekalongan creates Cooper (molds for making batik stamp) batik and make the version stamp or printing, so the void is already batik from extinction. In fact, if pursued further, is not typical of batik from Pekalongan city.

3. Pekalongan batik still exist with the original style of his own city (buketan) and has many young batik can be relied upon to create a unique batik Pekalongan. Age of this town have an original batik can be expected over the period stood his city.

What do your friends about this? When a batik into the list of your collection?