Knowing More about Javanese Traditional Batik Clothes

Indonesia has a lot of wonderful things that are admitted by international world. One of the Indonesian’s heritage that's also admitted as the world’s heritage is Batik clothing. Batik has been mentioned as the world’s heritage by the UNESCO. Batik is originally from Indonesia, especially Central Java. Batik clothing is widely available in Yogyakarta, Solo, Pekalongan, Cirebon, and many others areas. The Batik clothing is very beautiful because mostly, batik is made by clever batik maker manually. The batik could be described as painting arts on a part of cotton woven fabric. Batik is painted on a piece of cloth with size of 2m x 1m. The batik clothing has various motifs and usually the batik makers draw decorative flowers, birds, butterflies, geometric forms and many others. According to old Javanese documents, batik has a few motifs that are only used by royal families, such as Sultan and the family. The motifs that are typically used by the royal families are like Sido Mukti, Sido Mulyo, Parang, and many more. The batik is made using very traditional tool called canting. Canting is a tool looks like a small teapot. The canting is used to take melted wax and then brush it to the white cloth to create the batik motif. The canting is so small that the batik maker requirements often to take the wax from the melting pot. The wax is mixed with some natural dyes to make wonderful colors such as blue, brown, dark brown and dark red. To make batik, a batik maker needs a few hours because the batik is made manually using hand and the motif is made one by one carefully and with patience. It makes the traditional batik has costlier price because it reflects the patience of the makers. There are a lot of types of batik and because of the high demand of batik; people are now making batik using Cap or a copper stamp. The copper stamp is made based in the batik motif. The stamp is made small enough to make easier to operate it. The use of copper stamp make the production of batik will become faster and batik is able to be complete into other handy craft such as kaos batik. Batik t-shirt and bag are the newest transformations of batik because previously, batik just used by rich family and also the royal families. To purchase pakaian batik, you are able to visit Yogyakarta or Solo in Indonesia. You are able to also try to get the batik from online store from the internet. However, if you want to be sure that you buy the original handmade batik or baju batik, you must go to Indonesia, and visit its traditional maker. You can also visit many beautiful places in Java such as the Keraton (Royal Palace) too.