Model Baju Batik Terbaru

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Although no official records began to be known when the batik in Pekalongan, but according to estimates existing batik Pekalongan exist on 1800. In fact, according to data recorded at the Ministry, batik motif was created in 1802 as a small tree motif in the form of clothing material.

But the significant development expected to occur after a major war in 1825-1830 in the kingdom of Mataram are often referred to as the Diponegoro war or war of Java. With the onset of war is urging the royal family and his many followers left the kingdom then they spread towards the East and West. Later in that new area the Royal family and its followers developing batik.

Pekalongan encounter people with different nationalities such as Chinese, Dutch, Arabic, Indian, Malay and Japanese in the past. This make new dynamics in color, motifs and batik art.

The material, usually batik products use different materials or fabrics. Fabrics used are known as the Mori or Cotton. Mori fabric composed of various types ranging from Blaco Mori, Mori and Mori Prima Primis. Primis Mori fabric has a mix of cotton (cotton) that more yarn with low density is more tightly so that the material is cool, comfortable and not easily tangled. Other materials used to make batik fabric is silk. Batik is an automatic type has a higher price than the batik cloth. Silk itself comprises many levels ranging from plain silk with a mixture of 10%, 20%, 50% or 70%. In addition, now batik being developed using wood fiber, pineapple fiber material and so forth.

The process of making, batik process greatly affects the quality of batik products. The most expensive batik is made by hand writing using malam or wax. This product is now very rare because the process is long, expensive and the consumer also limited. Another manufacturing process is Cap that is by doing a tasting batik motif on batik cloth cap through the equipment. The printing method is the trend method now. They printing the fabric through a machine that is more sophisticated.

A variety of entertainment options in the modern era, it may make children forget about their culture, including activity that is closely related to the tradition. The various parties need to create a choice of activities to instill a love child in the nation's culture, including this kind of cloth.

Introducing batik to children will have wide impact. Children begin to learn about cultural heritage, slowly more loved and appreciated the work of their own nation and also helped preserve it.

This is why Bodrexin company took the kids to get to know more closely and appreciate batik. It can be practically unique. Bodrexin take the children to create batik designs of their fingerprint through 'One Million Finger Batik' program.