Indonesia Batik tulis store mega mendung/cloud heron pastel pink blue 5 blue gradation cotton Handdrawn using canting java batik modern home decor

Measurement: 240 X 105 +- 2cm

This batik has featured of mega mendung pattern /cloud pattern as a background with gradation of 7 shades of blue. Ornamented with flowers and drawing similar to open mangosteen for the border. For the main character of this batik is the beatiful crane. This piece has a detailed and fine drawing. Took around 2 months to finish.

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This is an original batik tulis, you can refers from the pictures that the pattern and colors are consistent on both sides of the fabrics (reversible). Modern dye /synthetic colors are used to make this unique color

A one of a kind masterpiece from the archipelago of Indonesia, each of this hand drawn batik (batik tulis) is brimming/ packed with history, tradition, stories of acculturation, expression of life, philosophy, diversity and cultural identities.
In the past, batik was was mostly reserved for the royal families and the nobility, but the beauty of hand drawn batik store or batik tulis can now be enjoyed by everyone.

To appreciate batik fully, one must understand the intricate process, skills and and the time involved in the process of creating batik tulis.
Depending on the intricacy of the motif, it may take a batik artisan (or artisans) several months or even years to create a batik tulis. Batik artisan meticulously draw every single dot, line, curve on that batik by hand, one by one

One piece of batik is a hardwork from multiple people with multiple role :
Entreprenuers who managed the workshop and employing ‘batikers'.
Designers / painter of the draft on the fabric, who were inventive and adventurous enough to create designs and develop color combinations
Batik workers/ batikers who mostly are female, skilled at drawing fine lines and small dots on cotton using ‘canting' and ‘malam'
The dyers who color the batik with natural and plant dyes back then and now some using chemical dyes. Each dyer has their own recipe to make a certain color so every dyer have their own unique signature color that other people cannot replicate as they keep it as secret.


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Batik is a drawing/painting/ a form of writing on cotton cloth using canting. Mbatik or the process of batiking produces batik in the form of various motifs which have specific characteristics which are passed onto the batik cloth.

The canting is the primary tool used in the batik process which determins whether the results of the batik called batik tulis or not. The canting is use to draw the motif with liquid wax (malam). It is made of copper and comes in various size. Just think of canting as the brush when you draw.

Through further development other tools have come into existence facilitating the batik process, for example the cap (printing block/ hand stamped). Such block-printing. Produces motifs identical to batik but the result is not comparable to the true batik tulis. To differentiate between the two, the designations ‘written' batik (hand painted) and ‘blocked/cap/hand stamped' batik are used.

There are few types of batik in Indonesia but the well known are mostly:
- Dutch batik (batik belanda/ Indische batik), sometimes referred to as Indo- European batik, made by Duch people who had long settled in Indonesia or Eurasians of mixed Dutch and Asian (Javanese, Arab or Chinese) heritage in the Pekalongan area, dating from 1880 to 1930
- Pesisir batik from Pesisir area of Java, stretching from Cirebon in the west to Lasem in the east
- Chinese Peranakan batik, made by the descendants of Chinese immigrants wo were born in the Indonesian archipelago

What all these pieces have in common is the high standard of their workmanship.
In 2009 UNESCO designated Indonesian batik masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

References:

Batik Klasik, Djambatan, 1981
Batik, Traditional Textiles of Indonesia: From The Rudolf Smend & Donald Harper Collections, 2015
Batik: Fabled Cloth of Java, Inger McCabe Elliott , 2010
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