Almost everyone knows about
Batik, from the America to Asia.
Some of them do
acknowledge that Batik is from Indonesia, even though the rest doesn’t.
The crazy thing is
some country have claimed that Batik is their culture, but we don’t want to dig
about that now.
Batik has a very
variative pattern because almost every culture in Indonesia has their special
pattern which they put in as the Batik.
There is a designer
who use Batik for her fashion design which has been the most favorite fashion
designer for almost all around the world.
She is Nicole Miller,
who usually use the pattern of Mega Mendung for her Batik.
She said that Batik
has become a lifestyle, not only in the form of traditional cloth, but also in
any form in all areas of life.
Nowadays, a lot of designer
has been adapt Batik to their fashion.
Actually, UNESCO has
inaugurated Batik as a Humanitarian Heritage for Oral and not-a-thing culture
from Indonesia since October 2, 2009.
Some of the designers
or labels that use Batik are Dries Van Noten, Nicole Miller, Burberry Prorsum,
and Diane von Furstenberg.
There are 3 common
styles of Batik, such as Sekar Jagad, Sidomukti Magetan, Kraton, Jepara, and
many more.
Batik Sekar Jagad
comes from Java, more precisely Yogyakarta. Jogja Batik has a fresh meaning of
the universe is the beauty or beauty that makes people who see it so
fascinated.
Batik Sidomukti
Magetan comes from the Magetan district, Batik has basic motifs of bamboo
images and like other batik-batik, usually batik is used on formal occasions or
ceremonies and meaningful hope to get the peace of mind.
In the beginning,
Batik Keraton is so exclusive that ordinary people are not allowed to wear this
motif and only wear the Sultan and his family.
But later, the
regulation was revoked and the common people were allowed to wear this motif.
Among the causes of
this exclusive motive is that the inventor of the motive was originally the
daughters of the palace of Yogya itself which in fact is still a member of the
Sultan's family. Actually, there are many models of Batik clothes owned by the Yogya
Palace, but the ones in this picture are the most popular.
Batik Jepara can be
divided into two types, namely the old motifs and new motifs.
Old Jepara Batik has a
pattern with black lung color, brown elephant, flora and fauna leaves and green
thread.
While the new Batik
Jepara Batik is a lot of variations. Batik Jepara itself is also known as Batik
kartini.
We can find various
kinds of batik motifs in the city of Jepara.
