Modern Batik of Pekalongan
Exploring types of motives and types of modern batik making us a little impressed with the efforts of our friends in Pekalongan batik to keep still exist in the public eye, especially Indonesia. We recognize, in addition to the material that is expected as income, their efforts still deserve our respect, why?
1. Friends in Pekalongan, at least, still trying to make batik remain. Although some more concentration into the modern style of batik production, but they still produce batik, one of the Indonesian culture, which was thought to be extinct soon.
2. Compared to some areas that allow batik area just vanished, it creates Pekalongan Cooper (molds to make batik thumb) and make batik in thumb version or printing, so the void is already batik from extinction. In fact, if traced further, batik is not typical of the town of Pekalongan.
3. Pekalongan batik still exist with the original style of his own city (buketan) and has a lot of young batik can be relied upon to make Pekalongan batik is unique. Age of original batik city is expected to be able to stand throughout the city.
resource: Loemboeng
Showing posts with label MOTIF OF BATIK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MOTIF OF BATIK. Show all posts
One of batik's motif - grompol motif
Yogyakarta the capital city of the most powerful and respected Kingdom of Java, is also at the heart of the Batik art.
All the old Traditions and customs are observed, as well as in Solo, and one can still find many symbols that are related to Hindu-Javanese culture.
The combination of motifs in Yogya batik is unique, and there is a tendency to combine a number of large geometric motifs.
The Grompol motif is a distinctively Yogya design customarily used for wedding ceremonies. Grompol, which means gather together symbolizes the coming together of all goods things, such as luck, happiness, children, and harmonious married life.
Grompol motif
The Nitik motif is found in great numbers in this area. During a colonial annual fair (Jaarbeurs) during the Dutch period, a batik producer gave the name Nitik Jaarbeurs to a motif which received an award.
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