Agricultural Social Economic and Rural Development

Batik The Traditional 
Javanese Clothes 


Batik is the traditional fabric that is typical of Indonesia, although now there are neighboring country that claimed batik is the traditional of its owners. But the world has been first  know  Indonesia as the owner of this batik traditional fabric. Now among government already obliges civil servants to wear batik fabric at a specific event, as well as high school kids wear batik on certain days. Moreover, among the people, wearing clothes of batik in weddings or  any festivals as an alternative as formal clothes. We would like to present  how the Javanese batik making (membatik). In this section we will  write tools used in the membatik:

The membatik equipment has not changed much from last time until now. Judging from the equipment and how to do membatik can be classified as a work that is traditional.

1. Gawangan is a tool for hooking and unfurled when membatik mori. Gawangan made of wood, or bamboo. Gawangan should be made in such a way, so easily removed, but must be strong and lightweight.

2. Pendulum
The pendulum is made of tin, or wood, or stone bagged. Principal function is to hold the pendulum new mori membatik that are not easily blown off, or pull the person that do membantik.

3 Wajan  is tool is to dilute the wax. Wok made from steel metal, or clay. The wok should be stemmed so easily raised and lowered from the fireplace without using other tools.

4. Stove
Stove is a tool to make a fire. Is utilized the stove burner with fuel oil.

5. Linens
Cloth is fabrics cover the thighs so as not to hit droplet of person who do membantik, heating the wax when canting blown, at the time to make.

6 Filter "wax"
Sieve is a tool to filter out "wax" feces much heat. If the "wax" is filtered, then the dirt can be removed so that does not interrupt the "wax" on the front line when used for batik canting.

7. Canting is a tool that is used to move or take fluids.
Canting Batik is a small tool that is made of copper and bamboo as handle. This canting is used to write patterns with liquid wax batik. Before plastic material widely used as household items, canting made of coconut shell is widely used as one of the kitchen equipment as a bailer. Today canting coconut shell is rarely seen anymore since replaced other materials such as plastic. Canting for membatikpun slowly being replaced with teflon.

8 Mori
Mori is the raw material of cotton batik. Quality of mori manifold, and its type will determine the merits of batik cloth produced. Mori required in accordance with the desired length of the short fabric. The short length mori usually not according to certain standards, but with the traditional size. The traditional size is called "handkerchief". Handkerchief is a handkerchief, usually square in shape. So-called "sekacu" is the size of the rectangle mori, taken from size The width mori. So long sekacu of a kind mori sekacu will vary with the length of the other types mori.

9 Candles ("wax")
Candles or "wax" is material that is used for batik. Actually "night" is not empty (missing), because eventually taken back to the drying process, the process of batik to membatik into cloth. "wax" that is used for batik is different from the usual dinner or candle. Wax for batik is rapidly absorbed in the fabric but can be easily separated when washing (pelorotan) process.

10 Pattern
The pattern is a motif in a certain size, for example mori motif that will be created. There are two kinds of pattern size. A pattern is a pattern that is as wide as the length mori.
Pattern B is one-third the length of the pattern mori, or a third the length of the pattern if the pattern A. A fourth Handkerchief, Handkerchief ola B 1/12; A ½ Handkerchief Pattern, pattern B Handkerchief sixth. The definition of the pattern of ¼, ½ or 1/3 the width of the pattern is the fourth Handkerchief, ½, or 1/3 the size of a side sekacu mori. But the size of the pattern A and B are often not as said above, because each not used in a piece of memory, or because the size is not always the same width mori.

Those are the tools to membatik, a traditional of Java clothe preparation.


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