Batik Carnival & Fashion 2009 in Solo

Handprinted batik needs a mixture of diligence and high precision. For classical motifs, the batik wax that has been melted is printed by hand using canting on the cloth. Now, the part that is covered by the wax will produce a very beautiful motif/pattern. “When we use manufacturer’s machine, it is not called making batik. It is textile,” stated Gunawan. Making batik process is starting by loyor step which is cutting and clean.

cloth before soaking it into hot burned rice straw water. Then, the kemplong stage or fiber compacting stage is done. After that, the pattern will be made and batik printing will be started. Nerusi or batik re-tracing on the other side of the cloth will be done and it will be followed by nembok or blocking the white part of the cloth with batik wax block.

Ngerok or nggirah, which is removing wax from the cloth to be died is another important step after medel or dyeing by soaking the cloth in dye. To avoid dyeing the cloth parts that should not be colored, there is a stage called mbironi or covering parts. This is conducted after nyoga stage or soaking the cloth (mori) into brown dye.