Batik is an art and culture heritage from Indonesia,
The Art Of Batik is a drawing technique on the fabric that use candle as the ink and canting as the pen. The understanding of batik art is various according to the art expert, batik is a fine art that can applied to many thing especially clothes and accesoris.
UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Curtural Organization) has determine that batik is genuine culture of Indonesia. And what is the meaning of batik art ? these are explanation from the art expert :
- Santosa Soleh
Batik is a fabric made traditionally that has a decorated shades, and certain pattern processing by celup rintang technique (drawing technique with particular decive) with a spesific candle as a coloring ink. Wich mean a fabric can be called a Batik, if it has two basic element, first is use celup rintang technique with the candle as the ink and has decorated shades and certain pattern.
- Nusjirwan Tirtaamidjaja
Art of batik is a fabric decoration technique that use candle in the purpose of coloring, and all the process is manually by hand or hand made.
From the explanation above, we could take a conclusion that :
- Art of batik is a fabric decoration technique with a few process
- The process is writing or drawing with a candle, immersion using textile color, and heated to clean the imperfect while drawing
- Batik is identical with various motive
- Batik is a traditional fabric and one of characteristic Indonesia nation.