The Meaning of Batik

What is batik?  I can safely get this statement that while many people know or have heard about this word, especially so here in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, but many people do not, or rather, have got a injurious misconception of batik itself.

In my discussions with friends and general public, many people have incorrect batik with batik design/ batik designs or even batik fabric.

History has it that batik is an feeble craft that dates centuries benefit. Batik is actually a hand-drawn and hand-painted technique, which uses wax.

The wax is a develop of 'resist' way, and the purpose of this blueprint is so that when colour is achieve on a positive site on the fabric, it does not urge to the other fraction. Let's purchase an example - an artist is is going to plot a floral motif and he wants the background blue eg. the motif of a flower (a yellow flower with a green stalk) .

Now, imagine that the artist will be drawing on a white part of cloth. The artist will first way the outline of the motif (ie. the flower & stalk)  with wax. And later, he will initiate to paint, starting with the yellow colour of the flower. What the wax does is to maintain the yellow in dwelling, so that it will not speed to the green stalk. And when he paints with green next, the same thing applies, that is the green will not lope to the yellow flower. Finally, he paints the blue background.

And of course, the artist will later have to wash the wax off the cloth, hence leaving that fraction which was originally covered with wax befriend to its recent white fabric colour. Hence, the white outline for the motif. And that is all it is to the meaning of batik.

However as mentioned earlier, a lot of people mistake batik with batik design/ batik designs especially if they sight a conventional or floral type motif, or patterns on a cloth that have white outlines. These may or may not considerable approach from the 'batik' technique, as it could approach from fresh day print.

In addition, unprejudiced because these prints have the more venerable motifs/ patterns, don't mistake them to reach from the art create of batik.

In fact, there are fresh designs, which actually are made from the batik technique as well. But people do not know it is so because it does not have the used spy and feel to it.

So my suggestion to you that if you bask in art, and batik in particular, first be aware whether the fabric you grasp really comes from the batik art. And secondly to be originate minded to embrace the change in original times that batik need not significant describe unbiased to passe motif/ patterns.

Ref:

http://batikbatikq.blogspot.com/2011/09/meaning-of-batik.html#more