Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Batik

Batik is a craft that has high artistic value and has become part of Indonesian culture (especially Java) since long. Javanese women in the past to make their skills in batik making a livelihood, so that in the past, batik work is exclusively women's work until the invention of "Batik Cap" which allows the entry of men into the field. There are some exceptions for this phenomenon, namely the coastal batik which has a masculine line as can be seen in the feature "Mega Overcast", which in some coastal areas batik work is common for men.
Batik tradition was originally a tradition handed down, so occasionally a recognizable motif batik originated from a particular family. Some batik may indicate the status of a person. Even today, some batik Traditional families are only used by the palace of Yogyakarta and Surakarta.Batik an ancestral heritage of Indonesia (Java) that until now still there. Batiks also first introduced to the world by President Suharto, who was then wearing the batik on the UN Conference.

Source : id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batik

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