Batik is one of culture heritage in indonesia. The pride of this old culture has been paid by inauguration of Batik as MASTERPIECE OF THE ORAL AND INTANGIBLE HERITAGE OF HUMANITY by UNESCO. Batik itself according to the history was brought by trader from india and srilanka in 6 or 7 century. Before batik was only a fabric which has 2 -2.5 meter and people normally usebit for particular reason such as a wedding occasion.But in this time, batik has become a trend in Indonesia. People start wearing batik as clothing, bags until slipper. Indonesia has proved that this country deserves to get the inauguration from UNESCO because batik has become an essential part of living here. Many people wearing Batik included me. Batik is very interesting valuable and high class art, not just because of the pattern and the colors which some of it has historical value and in some of places in indonesia, some of particular pattern has become a sacred and not everybody can wear it, but the process to make batik is not just as simple as you think.
Generally batik has been divided into 2 types which are hand writting batik and hand printing batik. Of course when we are talking about printing batik, it is quite a bit easy rather than hand writting batik.
The hand writing batik is the most expensive but the price and the worth is equal because to make 1 hand writting batik, it takes 3 to 4 months. But of course, you might wonder why it takes such a long time, lets see the steps here :
Generally batik has been divided into 2 types which are hand writting batik and hand printing batik. Of course when we are talking about printing batik, it is quite a bit easy rather than hand writting batik.
The hand writing batik is the most expensive but the price and the worth is equal because to make 1 hand writting batik, it takes 3 to 4 months. But of course, you might wonder why it takes such a long time, lets see the steps here :
