The Batik Culture
January 21, 2008
Batik has been both an art and a craft for centuries. In Java, Indonesia, batik is part of an ancient tradition, and some of the finest batik cloth in the world is still made there.
Contemporary batik, while owing much to the past, is markedly different from the more traditional and formal styles. For example, the artist may use etching, discharge dyeing, stencils, different tools for waxing and dyeing, wax recipes with different resist values and work with silk, cotton, wool, leather, paper or even wood and ceramics.
Batik is historically the most expressive and subtle of the resist methods. The ever widening range of techniques available offers the artist the opportunity to explore a unique process in a flexible and exciting ways.
Batik is an artform a culture. It is worn by the most modern women and yet it is also for the traditionalist. Today when you go down to the best beaches of the world you would notice a few girls who have travelled the world they would be wearing bikini’s and they would attract your attention at an immediate glance. But what they are also wearing is the Pario. The Pario is a simple Batik cloth which is very thin in nature and is normally made either with silk or light cotton. This pario is hanged from the hip down creating an ever wonder sensation. Why would they wear these things. Because it is the ultimate allurement.
The design is meant to keep you wondering what is beneath that piece of multi-colored hand painted cloth called the Batik Pario.
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