Sunday, January 5, 2014

LEMPER

Makanan khas jawa khas dibungkus daun pisang sangat beragam, salah satunya adalah lemper.
Terbuat dari ketan dan berisi daging ayam atau sapi dengan bumbu khas ini sangat enak.


Friday, November 29, 2013

papercraft indonesia

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Indonesian Batik

INDONESIAN BATIK

1. The variety of Batik Indonesia
Batik art developed throughout Indonesia with the uniqueness, beauty, and personality different. Some of the batik-producing areas such as: Solo, Yogyakarta, Pekalongan, Cirebon, Indramayu, Garut, Lasem, Tuban, and Madura. Batik in every region of Indonesia is unique and distinctive characteristics of each in order of decoration and color.
Batik motives are different betwen coastal areas and the palace area. Rural community/palace bored with colors, so the contrasting colors do not feel coarse, and elegant/ miyayeni). While coastal communities bored with the color blue, so feel fresh and interested in the colors vary. Beliefs and customs influence, for example, if the strong influence of Javanese Hindu many of the motives, symbols eg, cement, dollars, etc. Meanwhile, when a strong Islamic influence then a lot of decoration in the form of calligraphy. Decoration, Solo and Yogyakarta batik look small, smooth and curved, not straight like the shape, color in the harmony between the black, blue, brown and cream / white. Madura decoration large, long and convoluted, and color-free as it is. Motive variety of coastal areas are fish, water, shrimp and vegetable in a naturalist, while the area of the mountain kingdom, butterflies, birds and plants are symbolic .

Batik Tulis Jogja Motif Ambarsari

2. Batik Art Developments in Indonesia
Batik for centuries was developed in Indonesia. In particular the island of Java became one of the art of Java. Traditional manufacturing technology is almost beyond the hundreds of years to survive to the present, besides also developed other techniques, such as printed batik and batik printing. Mbatik or make batik means is to make the points, with his trademark tools called canting.
Batik is traditionally used in traditional ceremonies and beliefs. Even now still used primarily as the wedding ceremony. Batik is originally just for the clothing worn or used belong to the art has developed into a fine art in the form of paintings, but also developed into the art of handicrafts in the form of wider use for example, bags, accessories of women, pillowcases, tablecloths, etc.So batik in Indonesia has grown and developed both in terms of artistic value, pattern, style, and the manufacturing process.

3. Main Equipment of Batik
Basic tools for batik is canting which is principally used for painting. The tool is determining the criteria of a work called mbatik. Canting is made of copper which has a tank parts (for a wax liquid) and the hollow channel (kingfisher) with various sizes and number of holes (cucuk) the size to determine points, or lines will be painted. Canting fusuh example is a coarse cloth wrapped the hole which serves to cover the small blocks.
Other equipment is stove to heat a pan of wax liquid, gawangan to spread cloth, or large brush (jegol) to cover a large block of painting, as well as filters for filtering fluids from a dirt and prevent clogged canting batik process.

4. Batik Pattern Process
Motives of batik in Indonesia has grown to thousands and thousands of shades of variety, but basically has the general characteristics of, stilasi motives, motives distortion, and decorative motives. Stilasi motive is motive to change shape from its original form without leaving the characteristics of the original object. Motive distortions go round with a change of motive that are intended to highlight some of the elements of an object. While the decorative motif is a motive with the simplification of form and without regard to the 3-dimensional perspective of the object, solely to the decorations.
There is also a geometric pattern as the wall decorations of the temple or Surakarta palace gate. Traditional motives which until now was known among other things, parang, sidomukti, and which of course kawung diverse patterns and size derivatives.
The motives are first created the pattern on the fabric before then performed with canting batik process.

5. Dyeing onThe Process of Batik
In principle, the color process of batik is to give good color that is not part of a closed wax. You could say the process of batik is a negative process. Batik cloth that have been painted or dyed in the liquid color (diwedel), once dipped in the next step is to remove wax layers (dilorot) by boiling in water that has been mixed with alum and starch. The next stage dried in the shade.If want any other color then performed again with a canting painting process in a way that does not cover the desired for color, including those already given the desired color. Then performed again dilorot process and dried in the shade again. After drying is the process of refining and pressing to finish a batik fabric that is ready for use.

6. Use of Batik in Indonesia
Before the independence of Indonesia, one is not allowed to wear batik with random decoration. For example motive parang machete and kawung, should only be worn by kings and immediate family only. Use of batik cloth, among others set it on the wearer's social status, as well as opportunities, events, or events batik cloth when worn. Each batik motives have meaning and hope it contains. For example Ceremony Bride, Ceremony of death, etc. But after the independence of Indonesia, all decoration has become public property. Even in the seventies by abstract batik artists, introduced to the public and get their own place in the hearts of the people until now.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Batik Craft

There are many various of batik's product can be made. Recently not only clothing but can be handycraft, casual, jewellry, and more.