art culture from Java with batik tulis

By: erwin susetya

The existence of traditional batik tulis makers almost been abandoned today, because the skills required are not comparable with the income earned from working as batik craftsmen. We know that batik tulis need long time for production 5 till 6 month, so it is need patient person to do this, and from this I mean patient people must be professional craftsmen and can make the high artistic value of batik.

Traditional batik tulis maker is a culture’s worker that existed until up to now and still well be received by society because result of batik will be display as high aesthetic value, beside the cultural content’s value in this work seems clear that the traditional batik is a uniqueness product.

Depletion community members of batik tulis maker need more attention, because this proffesion is not to commercial but tend to maintenance the local culture, so the potential and the existence of these traditional batik tulis need to be preserved even need to be developed.
With the recognition solo as city of batik, we hope solo can be better. We hope They are the solo batik entrepreneurs can be growing and sustainability and also can stay awake in addition to rise and enrich the work of batik for transforming this culture to the modern nature.
Formerly Solo batik used only for traditional ceremonies as , marriage, funeral, but in the development era, today solo batik use not only for traditional ceremonies, but has expanded on its, use such as table cloths, gloves pillows, decorations, wall hangings, fashion, model modist clothes for both men and women.
Of the things mentioned above it is clear that the traditional batik tulis solo has unique characteristics that need to be preserved. let this culture be development because it is potential and very prospective as one of Indonesia culture branding. We hope start this time many people like this work as art of life by make batik tulis like recreation and happiness.

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