Batik & Craft

How to care Batik

2009-04-02T16:06:00.000+07:00

Batik has a price range that varies depending on the materials, patterns and coloring process. Batik materials with fine cotton or silk with natural coloring can be very expensive, especially batik so requires special care both fabric and colors to stay awake.
Batik in the process of washing must be done carefully using the hand, even in the particular type, batik is dyed only. For the first time, it used such dry fruit called "klerak" to wash Batik. Dyed using water mixed with starch can also be done to keep it mild. During drying should not be exposed to direct sunlight, because Batik is quickly dry.

Batik Tulis (Batik)

2009-03-28T14:26:00.001+07:00

Batik Tulis (Batik) is done manually with the hand when delineate motives batik using a tool called a canting. Materials for batik cloth usually comes from silk or cotton cloth with good quality. Therefore batik have a selling price that is quite expensive compared with the other batik.
Ways of making batik, made the first drawing with pencil on cloth or move a pattern from paper to cloth, and made the canting screw wax pattern to follow.

Batik Cap (Batik Stamp)

2009-03-27T14:19:00.000+07:00

Batik cap (Batik stamp) is done manually with hand tools such as the use seals (canting seal) that have a specific motif on the surface. Materials used are usually of cotton cloth, but there are also silk cloth, but the second quality. With this technique the craftsmen can produce the amount that many.
In created, the existing patterns in the canting live up cap seal in accordance with the existing motif.

Batik Yogyakarta

2009-03-26T10:47:00.000+07:00

Yogyakarta is a tourist destination in Indonesia. Yogyakarta city is known as the city's education and culture. Yogyakarta is the economic results of farming in the planting, trade, crafts (silver, leather puppet crafts, crafts, and webbing), and tourism.
Culture that it is still thick with the various traditions to create a place of Yogyakarta tourism in addition to the famous Bali. Similarly, various results the craft make the traveler / tourist both from domestic and abroad pleased to visit Yogyakarta. Batik is one of the craft that is known, in addition to other cities in Indonesia that have crafts such as batik Pekalongan, Solo, Cirebon, etc.Batik pattern in every region vary depending on the cultural area. Batik Yogyakarta retaining traditional's pattern as usual for the ceremony with a traditional omen of each.