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Batik Essay

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Get Up Close With Batik In Danar Hadi Museum, Solo
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There must be interesting things to see in an Indonesian city named Solo in Central Java province, as this city is known as 'kota batik ', which literally means the city of batik. There are several spots in the city where you can buy batik like pasar Klewer (pasar: market) or kampung batik Laweyan (kampung: village), but when you want to learn batik 's history and see the widest batik collection in the world, visit 'Danar Hadi ' Batik Museum.
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What is batik?
Batik is the brownish (sometimes reddish too) flowery motive on clothes and accessories like shirts and 'kebaya ' (long fabric wrapped around someone 's waist), handbags, hat or house decorations like carpets, bed sheets and curtains. It 's not clear who invented batik (similar painting techniques are also found in Chinese and Indian ancient civilizations), but the history of batik can be traced back in Majapahit era in …show more content…

To me, all batik motives look similar. They all have dark and winding flowery patterns and it 's amazing to know the guide can recognize the difference between types of batiks.

This museum, which stores batik collection of one of the most prominent batik traders, Mr. Santoso Doellah 's, displays than 500 pieces of batik fabrics of different types, which come from many different places. The batik types originated from Solo are named Batik Puro Mangkunegaran, which are distinguished by their more yellowish and feminine patterns. Long time ago these types of batik used to be made only for the royal family of Mangkunegaran kingdom (a kingdom in Solo, one of the 5 Javanese kingdoms that still maintains its special administration under the Republic of Indonesia till now), but now, just like all other batiks, it has been mass produced by many batik makers around the

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