BATIK, Traditional Garments from Indonesia

          Batik, the traditional Indonesian clothing or fabric that comes from Solo and Yogyakarta, Batik becoming known since XVII century the first in the first place only in the image on the cloth manuscripts, and until now turned into cloth. Actually batik clothes of the penguins former palace of Mataram, the wear by the family of the kings who ruled at the time, but as time went by now batik is a traditional clothes for the people of Java, especially Central Java. Batik is now a commercial item, have a sale value is high enough, because now in Indonesia has become a formal dress.            Batik-making began to be mass, and has now expanded to international markets, the traditional Indonesian batik is very good stuff, because it is very unique and rarely encountered in other places. Batik has a very diverse motives images, from images of leaves, trees, animals, until relief is in the ancient temples of the Majapahit kingdom era. Batik is now a destination by-the typical Indonesian by foreign tourists, because Indonesia is very impressive. 
Traditional batik is made by hand-painted using a tool called "Canting", which is sort of a small tube of molten plastic to paint color on the heat until melted, after painting, batik will then dried in the sun to dry, it is a simple illustration of how batik , for which actual detailed batik requires a long time to make a single strand of the fabric alone. 







If you visit Yogyakarta, the less fit what it feels when not bring batik to come home. 












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