batik

Batik is the art of beautifying clothes have high artistic value and has become part of the culture of Indonesia (especially Java) for a long time. Besides batik can refer to two things. The first is the technique of coloring cloth using the night to prevent the coloring part of the above clothes.batik made with white material made of cotton cloth called. Today the batik is also made on other materials such as silk, polyester, rayon and other synthetic materials. Motif batik wax is formed by using a tool called a canting for subtle motifs, or brush for large motifs, so that the liquid wax to seep into the fabric fibers. Fabrics that have been painted with wax and then dyed with the desired color, usually starting from a young colors. Immersion and then taken to another motif with color or black older. After some time coloring process, which has painting cloth dipped in chemicals to dissolve "lilin". Java women in the past made their skills in batik for a living, so in the past, batik work is exclusively women work until the invention of "Batik Cap" which allows the entry of men into the field. There are some exceptions to this phenomenon, namely that the coastal batik masculine lines as can be seen in shades of "Mega Clouds", which in some coastal areas batik work is common for men.