History of Batik

History of Batik

Batik originated from the Javanese "amba" meaning to write and "point". While the meaning of the word itself refers Batik fabric with a pattern that is produced by the nightly material is applied onto the fabric to resist the entry of the dye. Historically, batik originated from a common ancestor, which was known since the seventeenth century were painted and written on palm leaves. At that time, the motif is still dominated by the shapes of plants and animals. In the history of batik painting style has developed from plants and stars, is slowly turning towards abstract motives, like motif that resembles a cloud, puppets, reliefs, etc.

White cloth which is used as an ingredient when it is a material that is the result of homespun. Meanwhile, coloring materials in use consist of herbs that created itself. Such as noni tree, high, indigo, soga, then the material for soda is made from soda ash, as well as salts made from mud. Batik art itself is known as the art of the image on the cloth for clothing that became one of the family culture Indonesian kings in ancient times. Initially, batik is done only limited in the palace alone and the results used for the king's clothes, family, and his followers. Because many followers of the king who lived outside the court, and therefore the art of batik was brought by them outside the court and executed in their respective places.

Batik in Indonesia has been known since the days of the Majapahit empire and continue to grow until the next kingdom. Widespread batik art belongs to the people of Indonesia, Java in particular tribe is after the end of the eighteenth century or early nineteenth century. Where batik is batik produced until the early twentieth century, followed by a new batik known after World War I or around 1920. Behind the origins of batik itself, with time and progress gradually batik art then imitate the closest people to eventually expanded into women's work to fill his spare time. Then, initially only be batik clothes of the royal family, slowly began to turn into clothing that is highly favored people, both women and men.