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Why Batik Matters For Indonesian In General

Batik function in the old days for Indonesian is identity in the society. When someone wearing batik it shows and distinguish between one and another, it is differentiate the nobleman and commonalty, the monarchy batik only allowed to noble. As time goes by when the people more modern and monarchy system vanished, people nowadays considered batik as the way of lifestyle and everyday fashion. People believe batik is the way to make jewelry as it form in fabric pattern. Function batik for Indonesian switch into aesthetic, where batik clothing turn into high art value, not to differentiate people status. Now, people wearing batik to attend formal events, or special occasion.

Literally Batik came from Javanese which is Amba means Fabric, and technique to make motif pattern is by drawing dots in order to form a pattern in whole fabric. Each of motifs in batik has art value, it is also has philosophy meaning. In general batik has four philosophy Hope, Faith, Motive, and Message, the four values has different meaning in every Indonesia region depends on the culture and habit of the tradition, as we already know that Indonesia consist of thousands of island, every culture and habit of the society may vary one and another, so does the batik motifs and characteristic.

Few years ago some of the Indonesian culture like Rasa Sayange song, Pendhet dance, Reog, and Batik claimed to be the Malaysian culture. it Shocked the entire Indonesian, it has awaken the Indonesian that they should be more aware and appreciate more of their ancestors culture wealth.

Batik has special position in popular culture because of its multifunction in modern Indonesia. Batik plays an important role in interior design and fashion industry. Batik is not only an art, but it also become industrial product with economical value and multi function. Besides clothing, the implementation of batik now can be found as accessories, such as wallet, fan, bag, tablecloth, bed sheet, and or souvenirs people can always find in tourism spot, well, you can also find it as a pocket combined to aren cutlery in HANDMADE BY QnT WEBSHOP.

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