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Modern Side Of Contemporary Plus Unique Batik Clothing

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

Indonesia is one of numerous tourism industrialized country in Southeast Asian which is located in a crossing of two continents and two oceans. The continents and oceans stated are Pacific Ocean, Hindia Ocean, Asian Continent, and Australia Continent. Indonesia is really outstanding for the big variety of culture, natural resources, and hospitality. According to that, Indonesia always becomes the best favorite annual tourism destination in Asian area. When people discuss about Indonesia, they will absolutely keep in mind about Bali Island which is the most surfing beach in Indonesia with beautiful sunset and sunrise view. Besides, the rich culture of Indonesia is also highly regarded. One of several well-known cultural products in Indonesia is Batik. Batik is one art form of fabrication field which has typical and intricate patterns on woven fabric by certain fabrication process from typing, sewing, to dyeing. By looking at the long-history of batik, it will be fruitless if you do an excursion to Indonesia without buying some Batik clothing or furnishing.

Batik is excellent as Indonesia cultural products. And, this kind of fabric comes from Java Island especially Yogyakarta, Surakarta, and Central Java region. Those provinces of Java Island have ingrained tradition to make batik together in traditional pattern and conventional process. But now, batik is made not just in traditional pattern but also in contemporary and modern pattern. By doing transformation in coloring, patterning, and designing, Batik becomes more supple and flexible to apply in many categories of clothing and furnishing. During your first tour to Indonesia, you might think that batik is made for batik clothes or batik t-shirt only. Actually, batik for clothes is only one batik usage. Usually, the use of batik clothes is popular in order to complete the use of fashionable uniform, institution uniform, national uniform, or cultural uniform.

Besides for clothing, batik can also be used for furnishing. It means that you can add batik touch in all decorating item. The use of batik for furnishing is very different because the batik has high flexibility. In order words, batik is acceptable and adjustable to add in all decorations. Through batik, you can express your creation and innovation as wide as possible. From big thing to small thing, batik can be used to furnish. For example, in Malioboro, Yogyakarta, the motive of batik is used in the form of hat, bag, curtain, pillow sheet, bed cover, sandals, painting, and other else. And even batik touch can be applied for home designing field. It is because batik is found as batik wallpaper, batik wall decorating, and other else. So, you can apply batik in all conditions and situations. By looking at this consideration, batik is suitable for both bajubatik (Indonesia) such as kaos batik and furnishing such as Batik wallpaper.

An Alternatives Of Wearing Batik Clothing For Every Occasions

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

There are many exciting attractions in Indonesia that we can find, for example the various traditions, cultures, the beautiful places and many others. It can be from the traditional dance, historical place, traditional shows, the folk tales from a lot of regions in Indonesia, and many other attractions we can get there. One of the great attractions also comes from the fashion style that we are able to get from the heritage of Indonesia, for example the batik. It is one of the popular attractions that we can get from Indonesia. Batik is often used by the designers to create the great design and it looks so wonderful. That is the proof that batik is very popular. Batik clothes are made by the traditional process that is called batik that means making dots. It is also characterized by the unique and typical patterns. Actually the various patterns are made because of the assorted regions in Indonesia that have the various cultures and traditions. So, batik from every region has its own characteristics.

We can add batik clothing to our fashion item collection. It is going to be very great because it will be very unique and we can get the different style of fashion. Currently, we are able to find the various types of the batik outfits with the various styles. It will look so stylish and fashionable because nowadays, all people can wear batik for any events, including the formal occasion. It can be for the casual occasion, formal occasion, or the semi formal occasions. Of course we will look so trendy and ethnic at the similar time. We just need to be able to choose the right materials and the right style of the outfits based on the occasions. We are able to select the batik silk dress for the formal occasion. While for the semi formal of the casual, we can choose the cotton dress, or blouse. It is also can be based on the mix and match that we create. By wearing the cotton dress, we can still use it for the formal occasion by adding some formal complements, such as the formal high heels, and clutch bag that can make the whole of our look to be much more elegant.

There are so many types of batik that we can find easily, for example the dress, pants, blouse, shirts, T-shirts, and many others. All of them are very fashionable for every kinds of occasions. By the right option, we can get the fabulous look by the use of baju batik (Indonesian) for any events. We also can still wear batik for our vacation by choosing kaos batik or batik T-shirts that will look so casual but stylish. Batik can be the good deal for any kinds of occasions.

Batik – An Old Style Javanese Cloth With Many Fabrication Processes

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

One of highly regarded Southeast Asian tourism countries is Indonesia. Indonesia is a country located in Southeast Asian and stand on really strategic natural and cultural place. It relates to the existence of 2 continents plus 2 oceans surrounding. It’s true that Indonesia is surrounded by Asian Continent and Australian Continent as well as Hindia Ocean and Pacific Ocean. Placed in a crossing of 2 oceans and two continents, Indonesia has numerous cultural and natural products. Among so many cultural products, Batik is kind of outstanding in characteristic Indonesia fabrication form. Batik is an old style cultural Indonesia art ingrained product which is one of some oldest not just in Indonesia but also in the world. It is reasonable because the emersion of old Batik is found in Dutch transcript from 17th century. And, the evident proof can also be seen on wall-carved stone relief of Prambanan statue which is built in AD 800.

Batik is not just really full-of-art Javanese fabric but also long-process-needed fabrication. It means that this intricate and decorated Javanese fabric needs a quite long procedure of manual and traditional fabrication. Wholly, to create a piece of fabric, there are three main steps such as typing, sewing, and dyeing. Of course, the process which is used based on ingrained procedure has to be completed with natural ingredients and conventional tools. At least, there are 3 instruments in designing fabric. The three tools are stamp, wajan, and wax. Besides those tools, fabrication process will need natural material for the cloth like cotton or silk. Cotton or silk is commonly used in this designing process because these fabrics can perfectly absorb the wax. Besides, it is also because the fabric used has to have high tread count so it can maintain the quality of intricate and decorated design of Batik. And, silky and cotton fabric are also suitable to make batik.

As we know, there are at least 3 main instruments which are used to design intricate and decorated batik design. They include wax, wajan, and stamp and each of them holds certain and specific role. Wax is liquid material which is used to make the design onto the fabric. The quality and type of wax is various based on the purposes. However, all waxes have same contents such as beeswax, paraffin, resin and animal fat. Beeswax is used for maintaining the malleability. Paraffin is used for friability. Resin is used for increasing adhesiveness as well as animal fat is used for creating greater liquidity. The use of wax has to kept in proper temperature. Cheaper and low quality wax is be used in bigger area but expensive and high quality wax is used in narrower area. Wajan is a container which is used to accommodate melted wax. And, stamp is used to create the design. Basically, the choice of those main tools affects the quality of bajubatik or kaos batik (Indonesian) created.