Batik Art

Batik is an art activity by using heated wax and using canting or brush to create motifs or motifs images smeared on a sheet of cloth. The dyeing technique uses a closed dye technique. The art of batik is one of the applied art that characterizes the national archipelago. Currently, batik techniques are becoming more developed. Batik not only use canting but already using other types of equipment such as brush and cover (printing). So batik artwork is then divided into:

Batik artwork Using traditional tools like canting with simpler techniques.

❤❤❤ Artwork Batik Cap, Using modern tools with more creative and creative techniques. Based on its function, batik art is divided into two, namely:

          ✰✿ The practical function, batik cloth is used as clothing material for clothing, pillowcases, tablecloths, and so on.

          ✰✿ Aesthetic function, batik cloth can be used as decoration of art or painting.

❤❤❤ BATIK PATTERN, Drawings used in the use of decorative batik. Traditional batik artworks always use certain ornaments that have been applied from generation to generation since ancient times. The ornament has a symbolic or special meaning. But this time has been found many batik decorations with a more creative style. Decorative patterns are basic elements that can be used as guidance in designing an ornament. Ornamental motifs are the subject of mind and basic form in decoration, including human form, nature, plants and animals.

Ornaments are a form of decorative pattern of one or more decorative motifs with certain aesthetic rules so as to produce beautiful shapes.

Ornaments are divided into three:

 ✰✿ Geometric motif (double stranded, swastika, tumpal)

 ✰✿ Non-geometric motifs (humans, plants, animals)

 ✰✿ Motif of inanimate matter (water, clouds, rocks, mountains, sun)

Batik is a craft that has high artistic value and has become part of Indonesian culture (especially Java) since long. Batik tradition is originally a hereditary tradition, so sometimes the motif can be recognized from certain family batik. Some batik may indicate a person's status. Even today, some traditional batik motifs are only used by the royal family of Yogyakarta and Surakarta.

Various kinds of batik motifs

 ✰✿ Batik Cuwiri

 ✰✿ Batik Garuda

 ✰✿ Batik Kawung

 ✰✿ Batik Liris

 ✰✿ B. Mega Overcast

 ✰✿ Batik Merak

 ✰✿ Batik Meru

 ✰✿ Karawitan batik

 ✰✿ Batik Slope

 ✰✿ DLL

Batik Art