Sunday, February 10, 2008

batik

Batik (or Batik words) came from the Javanese language "amba" that was significant wrote and the "point".
Batik words referred to cloth with the feature that was produced by the "night" material (wax) that was applied on cloth, so as to keep the entry of colouring matters (dye), or in his English "wax-resist dyeing".
Batik was diligence that had the high value of art and became part of the Indonesian culture (especially Java) since long before.
Javanese women in the past made their skills in membatik as the livelihood, so as in the work past membatik was the exclusive work of the woman until the discovery of "Cap Batik" that enabled the entry of the man in this field.
There were several exceptions for this phenomenon, that is coastal batik that had the masculine line like that could be seen in the "rainclouds" feature, where in several areas of the work coast membatik was usual for the men.
The style of the feature and the colour was of Batik influenced by various foreign influences.
Initially, batik had the style of the feature and the limited colour, and several features only might be used by the certain circle.
However coastal batik absorbed various outside influences, like the foreign traders but also in the long run, the colonisers.
Clear colours like red was popularised by the person Tionghoa, that also popularised the Phoenix feature.
Colonisers's European nation also took the interest to batik, and results were the feature bebungaan that beforehand was not known (like the flower tulip) but also objects that were brought by colonisers (the building or the horse carriage), including also colours of their pleasure like the blue colour.
Batik tradisonal continued to maintain his feature, and still was used in traditional ceremonies, because usually respectively the feature had their respective symbolism.
The technique membatik was known since thousands of years that set.
There were no history information that were clear enough about the batik origin.
There were those who suspected this technique of coming from the Sumeria nation, afterwards was developed in Java after being brought by the Indian traders.
At this time batik could be found in many countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, and Iran.
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