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Batik

Indonesia has many traditional fabrics, one of them is batik. Batik is originally coming from Indonesia. Every region which has batik has own characteristic.

Batik divided into two kinds. Batik cap, batik which made by printed design using special modern tools. The second one is batik tulis which made by drawing the design using a tool named canting manually directly on the fabric without any modern tools.

The price of batik is also different. Usually batik this has more expensive price than batik cap because of the difficulty in producing it. Making batik tulis is more complicated. We have to make it carefully and it needs longer time than producing batik cap. Batik cap just prints the design with the tools. After that the both have the some processes.

Batik has different characteristic in each region. For instance, batik Pekalongan has differences with batik from Kalimantan, Solo, and others although it just differ in shape of lines. Usually it describes or symbolizes its region.

Now days, batik  is not an ancient thing to wear. Batik become popular in fashion with modern touch. And Indonesia needs to be proud of batik because batik is confessed as a cultural heritage of the world by UNESCO.