Tips for Choosing Batik Tulis

Tips for Choosing Batik Tulis

If we take a stroll in the market in batik or batik shops, we often feel "not know", confused and having trouble when going to buy batik. Expensive prices can not be pledged as collateral that batik was good quality and are classified as batik / batik native / batik fine.

So we can be fooled when I saw the batik is "fine", then we think that batik, it was not! In shops and at markets batik was sold a variety of batik cloth. The price also varies widely, from fairly cheap to super expensive.

In terms of technique or the way they are made, there are five types of batik cloth that sold them, namely:

1. batik.
2. batik combination (combination of batik and batik)
3. batik
4. batik printing
5. batik pull (a combination of batik and batik printing).


To know clearly, whether it includes a piece of batik cloth batik kind or another, needed extra carefulness and accuracy. There are several characteristics of each type of batik. Here I will give tips for choosing batik course, since this is usually the most difficult. There are several things to consider in buying batik among others:

* Usually, every image and every motive was not identical (asymmetrical). There are parts that are too small and there are parts that are too big. "Cecek-cecek" and "isinen" in each picture is also not as big-small
* Batik write always dibatik canal, the point after dibatik "ngengrengan" dibatik again in the back of the fabric to the motif are more noticeable.
* Batik write the original usually has a distinctive aroma, because this batik cloth "disoga" or skin-colored bark, such as timber height (for the color black, wood teger (for yellow), wooden jambal (for the color brown), leaf Tom and roots (for blue).
* Mori used mori usually more severe than for other types of batik.
* The small and complex motives, usually it is more fine batik.