Batik

Batik (or Batik words) came from the Javanese language "amba" that was significant wrote and the "point". Batik words referred to cloth with the feature that was produced by the "night" material (wax) that was applied on cloth, so as to keep the entry of colouring matters (dye), or in his English "wax-resist dyeing".

Batik was diligence that had the high value of art and became part of the Indonesian culture (especially Java) since long before. Javanese women in the past made their skills in membatik as the livelihood, so as in the work past membatik was the exclusive work of the woman until the discovery of "Cap Batik" that enabled the entry of the man in this field. There were several exceptions for this phenomenon, that is coastal batik that had the masculine line like that could be seen in the "rainclouds" feature, where in several areas of the work coast membatik was usual for the men.

The style of the feature and the colour was of Batik influenced by various foreign influences. Initially, batik had the style of the feature and the limited colour, and several features only might be used by the certain circle. However coastal batik absorbed various outside influences, like the foreign traders but also in the long run, the colonisers.

Clear colours like red was popularised by the person Tionghoa, that also popularised the Phoenix feature. Colonisers's European nation also took the interest to batik, and results were the feature bebungaan that beforehand was not known (like the flower tulip) but also objects that were brought by colonisers (the building or the horse carriage), including also colours of their pleasure like the blue colour. Batik tradisonal continued to maintain his feature, and still was used in traditional ceremonies, because usually respectively the feature had their respective symbolism.

The technique membatik was known since thousands of years that set. There were no history information that were clear enough about the batik origin. There were those who suspected this technique of coming from the Sumeria nation, afterwards was developed in Java after being brought by the Indian traders. At this time batik could be found in many countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, and Iran. Apart from in Asia, batik was also very popular in several countries in the African continent. Nevertheless, batik that was very famous in the world was batik that came from Indonesia, especially from Java.

The tradition membatik at first was the hereditary tradition, so as occasionally a motive could be known came from the family's certain batik. Several motives of batik could show the status someone. Moreover until this, several motives of batik tadisional only was used by the Yogyakarta palace family and Surakarta.

Originally batik was made on the material with the white colour that was made from cotton that was named cloth mori. Today batik is also made on the other material like silk, polyester, the sector and the other synthetic material. The motive of batik was formed with the candle liquid by using the implement that was named the dipper for the refined motive, or brushed for the measuring motive big, so as the candle liquid penetrated in cloth fibre. Cloth that was depicted with the candle afterwards was dipped with the colour that is wanted, usually was begun from young colours. The immersion was afterwards carried out for the other motive with the colour was more dark or dark. After several times the process pewarnaan, cloth that has dibatik was dipped into the chemical to dissolve the candle.