History of batik
Probably has a lot of us who knew and know, even using batik. However, how the history of the development of batik itself in the homeland? Actually dikanal batik in Indonesia has been since the time of the Majapahit Kingdom and continues to expand the kingdom and the kings of the next.
At the beginning of its development, roughly around the eighteenth century or early twentieth century is still a batik, batik own while newly introduced after the first world war or the year 1920.
While the relation to the spread of Islam, many central areas Batik in Java are regions batik students and then became a tool of economic struggle by the trade figures of Muslims against the Dutch economy.
Art is the art of batik cloth for clothing above picture which became one family culture Indonesian kings of old. Awalanya batik is done only limited in the palace alone and proceeds to dress the king and family and his followers. Because many of the followers of the king who lived outside the palace, the art of batik was brought by them out palace and place of each work.
Eventually art of batik was imitated by the people nearest and further extends the work of women in the household to fill his spare time. Batik pakaina that used only the royal family, became pakaina kemuadian favored people, both men and women.
In those days, white fabric that is used when it is the result of weaving itself. While the coloring materials used consisted of plants native to Indonesia who made his own, among others; noni tree, tall, soga, indigo, and materials made from soda ash soda, as well as from soil gawamnya mud.
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