Batik of Central Java

(Batik of Central Java) One of the developing kinds of the clothing product fast in Central Java since several decades, even several previous centuries, were batik diligence.
Most Indonesian communities knew batik to be good in his feature that was traditional and that was modern.
Generally batik was used for cloth jarik, the shirt, sprey, the table tablecloth, and the female fashion.
In view of the fact that this product kind was very much influenced by the consumer's appetite and the change in time and the model, then the development of the batik industry in Central Java also experienced the fast development both was related to the plan, the appearance, the feature and his use, was adapted to the request and the requirement for the good market in and foreign.
Batik tradisonal historically came from the ancestors's time was known since the XVII age that was written and depicted to the leaves threw.
At that time the motive of batik was still being dominated with the form of the animal and the crop.
However in the history of his development batik in Central Java experienced the development, that is from features and the crop of the animal painting gradually changed in the motive of the abstract that resembled the cloud, temple relief, the puppet revealed et cetera.
Further through the merging of the painting feature with clothes decorative arts, emerged batik art wrote like that is known by us now.
The kind and the traditional batik feature be classed as a large number of, but the feature and his variation in accordance with philosophy and the culture respectively the very heterogenous area.
The Indonesian treasury of the Nation culture like this rich pushed the birth of various features and the batik kind tradisioanal with the characteristics kekhususan him himself.
In principle, was gotten by 11 stages that generally is passed through in the production of traditional batik, that is: nggirah, nganji, nyimpong, njereng, nerusi, nembok, medel, mbironi, nyoga, and glorod.
Production centres of batik in Central Java often were encountered in the Pekalongan Regency, Kota Pekalongan, Kota Surakarta, and the Sragen Regency.
From the side of the request and the uniqueness of the product, the efforts opportunity in the field of the batik industry still was open the area and very beneficial.
The marketing of batik apart from for local consumption also penetrated the European market and America.
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