Batik is a cloth that is traditionally made using a manual wax-resist dyeing technique. Batik Indonesia, as the overall technique, technology, and development of motives and culture-related, has been designated by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on October 2, 2009.
The
practice of artistic painting and fashion then permeated when people
started writing and painting these patterns on white clothes using wax,
which later was known as Batik.
Batik
technique might have been introduced to Indonesia by India or Sri Lanka
in the 6th or 7th century. The word “Batik” itself comes from “amba” –
meaning “to write” in Javanese and “titik” – meaning “dot” in
Indonesian. Today most people wear Batik from Java, the central island
of Indonesia.
Batik Tulis
is a hand-drawing, batik painting technique. One would repeat a pattern
using canting (wooden pen fitted with reservoir for hot, liquid wax) to
fill a pre-sized mori cloth (cotton fabric for batik painting).
The
main elements of the patterns (usually animals, flowers, circles, or
curves) are penciled onto fabrics before the details (like lines and
dots) are added freehand by each artisan
As
a result, no two batik tulis patterns are identical. This technique was
traditionally practiced as a form of meditation by the female courtiers
of Kraton, or Javanese
court, in Central Java. It takes a great deal of expertise, patience,
concentration, and deep feeling to produce the finest Batik Tulis, and
it may take days, weeks and even months to make a single piece of fabric
by Veronica Junaidi
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