How to Choose a Hand–Made Batik
Do you find difficulties to choose a hand-made batik? Sometimes it happens
to us when we are shopping in a traditional batik market or in a batik shop,
we get confused to choose a hand-made batik. Don’t think that the expensive
price is a guarantee for a good quality! In fact there are many kinds of batik
at a traditional batik market or a batik shop such as :
Batik ”tulis“ (Hand-made batik).
Combination batik ( a combination of hand-made batik and “cap”
or stamped batik)
Batik “cap” (stamped-batik).
Batik Printing (printed batik).
Batik “cabut”( a combination of hand-made and printed batik).
The prices are very various from the cheap ones up to the super expensive ones.
To get a hand-made batik is a bit difficult. For those who never buy batik ,
here are some tips to choose a real hand-made batik.
- Normally a hand-made batik‘s patterns are not exactly similar.The
designs or pictures are asymmetrical (some are big, some are small).
- If we turn a hand-made batik material upside down, it’s pattern can
be seen quite clear.
- A hand-made batik normally smells fragrant because of the batik making -
process . The batik making process used special roots, leaves, or woods to
color the materials. They produce specific fragrance.
- The material used for hand-made batik is heavier than other kinds of batik.
- The more complicated and the smaller patterns indicate the better quality
and the more expensive one.
Hopefully the tips could help you to find a real batik, the hand-made one.
Have a nice shopping!
.:: Mira ::.
Indonesian Language Teacher of Puri
Taken from http://www.puri.co.id/bulletin/bulletin6/tips_batik.htm
Note : the picture shown is an example of coastal batik tulis called TANAHAN
from Pekalongan. The price is about US$ 150. We can see the pattern upside down.
The material is hand woven cotton from Jepara. A bit thick compare to my other
collections , also it smells nice. ( owner )
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