How to make Batik and where we could get the course

Yogyakarta is a beautiful town; you not only just buy and enjoy the great batik artwork, but get opportunity to learn the batik production. This package includes the interesting tourism traveling with short duration and low cost, surely its very comfort.

At that place you can learn how to make batik pattern such as hand-made batik, printed batik, and painted batik. Of course all place offering own specification about Batik which we are learned. For a day it’s divided into 2 sessions and the trainee teach to make batik from motif making, coloring, wax dying, and drying.

The batik pattern process will be begun when all material is ready. Pattern process will be done with wax as the main material, of course we need cloth looks like a canvas as media to make a pattern. If you want to make hand–made batik, we could use wax pen is called canting to make it, but if we want to make print batik it will be using copper print which has been design as our plan.

All unique patterns could be made according to the trainee such as ceplok pattern, cecek sawut, and semen pattern. All of that are pattern of ancient building in Indonesia. Ceplok pattern is Borobudur temple’s, cecek sawut is a bronze accessories pattern from bronze era, and semen pattern could be found in the Kalinyamat funeral.

Pattern process already finishes and continued to the coloring. The patterned cloth dips into the coloring bucket. Looks like this process is very simple but it’s difficult enough, moreover if we want to make Batik more than two color. Many Batik artisans still using natural coloring but some of them use synthetics.

If the coloring process already finish, batik process will be continued to dying the wax, or removing the wax attaching to the cloth. It is done by preparing boiling water mixed with soda ash and finally the cloth is dipped to remove the entire wax. If there is still wax attached, it must be cleaned after the dying process.

Final step in batik process is washing, if the artisans use natural coloring not suggest using detergent caused it will be removed the color. After washing process continues with the drying, the cloth placed in the windy area, it is proposed to avoid coloring damage. Batik with the synthetics coloring will be delight than the natural.

Batik course place in Yogyakarta prepare professional trainer so the trainee could be an expert in a short time. For information, some trainers could be speaking English well and it will be easier the foreigner to do communication.

Some of the batik Course in Yogya is Sanggar Kalpika in Kampung Taman, Batik course place in Kusumanegara Street, etc... The course place offering various costs to learn batik it is 250.000 rupiahs to 1.500.000.

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Aceh Batik

Aceh is famous and well known as Indonesia part. It is not only known as the disaster area after got tsunami in 2004 but also it has cultural heritage.

One of the heritage there, is Batik Aceh although batik popular in Java Island. Glamour and beautiful you gets as the first impression when you see it caused it has different motif with the others. The motif of the Aceh batik shows combination cultural and natural colorful makes it glamour.

According to the makers of batik Aceh, the colorful nuance as a symbol of Aceh’s people. The motif tends to tell that the Aceh’s people are introvert men but if the others already known them, they will be very friendly. That is the character of Aceh’s, beside of that some motif shows that Aceh’s is a tolerance people and most of them are Moslem.

Aceh Batik sometimes using in formal ceremony such as in wedding party and designed resemble with the bride accessories. To know more detail about it, I suggest you come to Aceh by yourself.