Indonesian Batik
Batik (Batik or word) comes from Javanese language "Amba" meaning to write and "points". The word refers to fabrics with batik designs produced by "night" (wax) is applied to the fabric, so resist the entry of food color (dye), or in English is "wax-resist dyeing".
Batik is a craft that has high artistic value and has become part of Indonesian culture (especially Java) since long. Javanese women in the past to make their skills in batik making a livelihood, so that in the past, batik work is exclusively women's work until the invention of "Batik Cap" which allows the entry of men into this field. There are some exceptions to this phenomenon, namely the coastal batik which has a line of masculine as can be seen in the style of "Mega Overcast", which in some coastal areas batik work is common for men.
Variety of styles and colors Batik is influenced by various foreign influences. Originally, batik has a variety of styles and colors are limited, and some patterns may only be worn by certain circles. However, coastal batik absorb various external influences, such as foreign traders and also in the end, the invaders. Bright colors like red, popularized by the Tionghoa, who also popularized the style of the phoenix. European colonial nations are also taking interest in batik, and the result is a style of flowers that were not known (such as tulips) and also the items taken by the colonizer (buildings or train a horse), including their favorite colors like blue. Retaining traditional batik 's type, and is still used in traditional ceremonies, because it usually has the hue of each respective symbols.
Batik technique has been known for thousands of years ago. There is no historical information is quite clear about the origins of batik. Some suspect this technique comes from the Sumerian, then developed in Java after being taken by Indian traders. Currently batik can be found in many countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, and Iran. Besides Asia, batik is also very popular in some countries on the African continent. However, batik, which is very famous in the world is derived from Indonesian batik, especially from Java.
Batik tradition was originally a hereditary tradition, so occasionally a recognizable motif batik come from certain families. Some batik may indicate the status of a person. Even today, some batik Traditional families are only used by the palace of Yogyakarta and Surakarta.
Although batik is identical to the Javanese traditional clothes, but now batik has become the national dress for the Indonesian people, even many well known abroad. Penggunaannyapun no longer a traditional outfit but has followed the development of fashions for both women and men, even used as an interior design and home appliances.
Kinds of batik can be differentiated into:
* Batik Classic
* Batik Modern.
Batik Classic
Classical batik has value and taste of high art, with intricate workmanship and within weeks. Classical batik has certain basic patterns with a wide variety of motifs, such as kawung, machetes, nitik, tuntum, fried, patched, and so forth. The basic ingredients in the form of batik cloth of fine quality white cotton, also a white silk cloth, batik silk material will result in more vibrant colors.
Classical Batik Making Process
Almost everyone has seen the batik. Even many of whom had ever seen how making batik. They thought that they saw him in his journey in Java during a visit to a batik work place where the women drew designs on white cloth with a canting. This section, which is actually the application of the night was just one of many processing steps that must be done to make a product called batik.
Preparation
White cotton fabric with a width of approximately 110 cm and 240 cm length previously tilled in order to be used for further processing. This consists of cultivating wash, starch, dried them and knocked, a process that takes several days.
Design
If the fabric is ready for further processing, the motifs were drawn by following the pattern that has been available on paper or drawing directly on the fabric for batik craftsmen who have been expert. After the design is made then one by one given color. But can also be used to draw around the design so that the field-field could be covered. How to draw conducted with a liquid that comes out of the canting night in the form of fine spray, while canting the size variable.
Canting teapot shaped like a small brass of the head and stemmed tobacco pipe wood. The smaller the canting the more subtle flow of evening out. Earlier that night melted by heating it first, it is important to maintain proper temperature. Then, on the opposite surface of fabric, design and workmanship done the same so there is no difference on either side of batik cloth.
Coloration
Furthermore, the fabric can be dipped in blue dye. Coloring / dyeing is repeated several times until the results achieved. In the high-quality products staining up to 30 times is a must. Traditional dyes are indigo, privileges this color is the new color of cloth that were incurred after the dye was dried and exposed to air. If the fabric is still wet then design parts that will be a brown color, scraped night. After that the parts indicated by the blue and blue stay must also covered with wax. Then a cloth dipped in chocolate coloring.
Ingredients for Chocolate is a traditional dye soga, a certain kind of tree bark. Cultivating good color takes 15 days, with three kinds of staining per day. The sections are stained blue at first and then stained brown to black in color. Thus there are three colors from the two dyes, namely blue, brown and black. And besides that some parts remain white.
Disappearance Night
After repetition of coloring done so accordingly. Furthermore, throughout the night can be released, this is done by clicking godog until liquid, and liquid will float on the surface of the night. After that the fabric washed again.
The execution of the batik on silk fabric used tehknik different, because it requires night and a different dye in order not to damage the silk cloth.
Results batik making process mentioned above is called batik. Other types of batik, where the process of drawing with the batik canting replaced by using the seal (shown below) to apply the night on the fabric.
Classical known as the naming of various size and length of batik cloth with a width of 110 cm X 240 cm length, batik sarongs (about 105cmX200cm), scarves (45 ~ 60cmX200 ~ 300cm), iket head (90cmX90cm) and kemben (60cmX200cm).
In everyday use of batik can be easily found in various forms such as various kinds of formal wear for men and women, and various materials for interior decoration of the home, office or hotel, as well as variations such households, tablecloths, napkins, place mats, bags, gloves cushions, bedcovers, bed sheets, and others.
Modern Batik
Unlike classical, modern batik motifs on both staining does not depend on the patterns and specific staining as in the classical, but its design could be anything, and an assortment of colors. Modern batik is also using materials and processes that follow the development of the coloring materials The color. Sometimes in some areas of design, but with a canting is not used for staining using a brush and sometimes applied directly by using cotton or cloth. In other words, the process of making batik is almost like a modern yet classical design and coloring is up to the artistic taste of the author and The color depends on the materials. Even with the development of the basic ingredients of fabric and colored fabric, modern batik became increasingly varied, such as batik in Jogja striated cotton, poplin fabric, pajama materials, wool, etc..
Modern Batik Making Process
Workmanship in modern batik has the same principle as in the process of making batik batik modern classic because it is the development of classical variations.
Preparation
Cotton cloth that will dibatik first washed to be free from materials that are still contained by the fabric when the process of weaving / cloth-making, is intended to be on the coloring process would not be affected by these substances. Furthermore, the prepared fabric was dried.
Design
Design is done directly on the fabric using a pencil or whatever if it will be washed at the end of the squiggle batik processing can be lost, or designs can also use patterns that have been prepared beforehand. After the design is ready it done early batik using canting or brush on graffiti design. In the batik process to note which parts will be assigned a different color, following the design and color of the desired results.
Coloration
Staining process varies depending on the dyes and techniques used to acquire color. Basically on the first stage coloration of the color used is the color of the younger first, is due to the backward process coloring would be conducted repeatedly depending on the number of color desired. Coloring materials include Naphtol, Indigosol, Base, Procion, etc..
In this process of batik is still made in the colors you want to achieve by the end of the process. After the coloring process is complete the removal process will be done tonight batik / dilorod by entering the cloth into hot water, after a whole night next batik cloth is missing from the washing and cleaning cloth.
Batik (Batik or word) comes from Javanese language "Amba" meaning to write and "points". The word refers to fabrics with batik designs produced by "night" (wax) is applied to the fabric, so resist the entry of food color (dye), or in English is "wax-resist dyeing".
Batik is a craft that has high artistic value and has become part of Indonesian culture (especially Java) since long. Javanese women in the past to make their skills in batik making a livelihood, so that in the past, batik work is exclusively women's work until the invention of "Batik Cap" which allows the entry of men into this field. There are some exceptions to this phenomenon, namely the coastal batik which has a line of masculine as can be seen in the style of "Mega Overcast", which in some coastal areas batik work is common for men.
Variety of styles and colors Batik is influenced by various foreign influences. Originally, batik has a variety of styles and colors are limited, and some patterns may only be worn by certain circles. However, coastal batik absorb various external influences, such as foreign traders and also in the end, the invaders. Bright colors like red, popularized by the Tionghoa, who also popularized the style of the phoenix. European colonial nations are also taking interest in batik, and the result is a style of flowers that were not known (such as tulips) and also the items taken by the colonizer (buildings or train a horse), including their favorite colors like blue. Retaining traditional batik 's type, and is still used in traditional ceremonies, because it usually has the hue of each respective symbols.
Batik technique has been known for thousands of years ago. There is no historical information is quite clear about the origins of batik. Some suspect this technique comes from the Sumerian, then developed in Java after being taken by Indian traders. Currently batik can be found in many countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, and Iran. Besides Asia, batik is also very popular in some countries on the African continent. However, batik, which is very famous in the world is derived from Indonesian batik, especially from Java.
Batik tradition was originally a hereditary tradition, so occasionally a recognizable motif batik come from certain families. Some batik may indicate the status of a person. Even today, some batik Traditional families are only used by the palace of Yogyakarta and Surakarta.
Although batik is identical to the Javanese traditional clothes, but now batik has become the national dress for the Indonesian people, even many well known abroad. Penggunaannyapun no longer a traditional outfit but has followed the development of fashions for both women and men, even used as an interior design and home appliances.
Kinds of batik can be differentiated into:
* Batik Classic
* Batik Modern.
Batik Classic
Classical batik has value and taste of high art, with intricate workmanship and within weeks. Classical batik has certain basic patterns with a wide variety of motifs, such as kawung, machetes, nitik, tuntum, fried, patched, and so forth. The basic ingredients in the form of batik cloth of fine quality white cotton, also a white silk cloth, batik silk material will result in more vibrant colors.
Classical Batik Making Process
Almost everyone has seen the batik. Even many of whom had ever seen how making batik. They thought that they saw him in his journey in Java during a visit to a batik work place where the women drew designs on white cloth with a canting. This section, which is actually the application of the night was just one of many processing steps that must be done to make a product called batik.
Preparation
White cotton fabric with a width of approximately 110 cm and 240 cm length previously tilled in order to be used for further processing. This consists of cultivating wash, starch, dried them and knocked, a process that takes several days.
Design
If the fabric is ready for further processing, the motifs were drawn by following the pattern that has been available on paper or drawing directly on the fabric for batik craftsmen who have been expert. After the design is made then one by one given color. But can also be used to draw around the design so that the field-field could be covered. How to draw conducted with a liquid that comes out of the canting night in the form of fine spray, while canting the size variable.
Canting teapot shaped like a small brass of the head and stemmed tobacco pipe wood. The smaller the canting the more subtle flow of evening out. Earlier that night melted by heating it first, it is important to maintain proper temperature. Then, on the opposite surface of fabric, design and workmanship done the same so there is no difference on either side of batik cloth.
Coloration
Furthermore, the fabric can be dipped in blue dye. Coloring / dyeing is repeated several times until the results achieved. In the high-quality products staining up to 30 times is a must. Traditional dyes are indigo, privileges this color is the new color of cloth that were incurred after the dye was dried and exposed to air. If the fabric is still wet then design parts that will be a brown color, scraped night. After that the parts indicated by the blue and blue stay must also covered with wax. Then a cloth dipped in chocolate coloring.
Ingredients for Chocolate is a traditional dye soga, a certain kind of tree bark. Cultivating good color takes 15 days, with three kinds of staining per day. The sections are stained blue at first and then stained brown to black in color. Thus there are three colors from the two dyes, namely blue, brown and black. And besides that some parts remain white.
Disappearance Night
After repetition of coloring done so accordingly. Furthermore, throughout the night can be released, this is done by clicking godog until liquid, and liquid will float on the surface of the night. After that the fabric washed again.
The execution of the batik on silk fabric used tehknik different, because it requires night and a different dye in order not to damage the silk cloth.
Results batik making process mentioned above is called batik. Other types of batik, where the process of drawing with the batik canting replaced by using the seal (shown below) to apply the night on the fabric.
Classical known as the naming of various size and length of batik cloth with a width of 110 cm X 240 cm length, batik sarongs (about 105cmX200cm), scarves (45 ~ 60cmX200 ~ 300cm), iket head (90cmX90cm) and kemben (60cmX200cm).
In everyday use of batik can be easily found in various forms such as various kinds of formal wear for men and women, and various materials for interior decoration of the home, office or hotel, as well as variations such households, tablecloths, napkins, place mats, bags, gloves cushions, bedcovers, bed sheets, and others.
Modern Batik
Unlike classical, modern batik motifs on both staining does not depend on the patterns and specific staining as in the classical, but its design could be anything, and an assortment of colors. Modern batik is also using materials and processes that follow the development of the coloring materials The color. Sometimes in some areas of design, but with a canting is not used for staining using a brush and sometimes applied directly by using cotton or cloth. In other words, the process of making batik is almost like a modern yet classical design and coloring is up to the artistic taste of the author and The color depends on the materials. Even with the development of the basic ingredients of fabric and colored fabric, modern batik became increasingly varied, such as batik in Jogja striated cotton, poplin fabric, pajama materials, wool, etc..
Modern Batik Making Process
Workmanship in modern batik has the same principle as in the process of making batik batik modern classic because it is the development of classical variations.
Preparation
Cotton cloth that will dibatik first washed to be free from materials that are still contained by the fabric when the process of weaving / cloth-making, is intended to be on the coloring process would not be affected by these substances. Furthermore, the prepared fabric was dried.
Design
Design is done directly on the fabric using a pencil or whatever if it will be washed at the end of the squiggle batik processing can be lost, or designs can also use patterns that have been prepared beforehand. After the design is ready it done early batik using canting or brush on graffiti design. In the batik process to note which parts will be assigned a different color, following the design and color of the desired results.
Coloration
Staining process varies depending on the dyes and techniques used to acquire color. Basically on the first stage coloration of the color used is the color of the younger first, is due to the backward process coloring would be conducted repeatedly depending on the number of color desired. Coloring materials include Naphtol, Indigosol, Base, Procion, etc..
In this process of batik is still made in the colors you want to achieve by the end of the process. After the coloring process is complete the removal process will be done tonight batik / dilorod by entering the cloth into hot water, after a whole night next batik cloth is missing from the washing and cleaning cloth.
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