Jambi Batik Industry, Sumatra - Indonesia
Batik is the work of the Indonesian nation that is created from a combination of art and technology ancestral nation of Indonesia. Batik products can be developed to arrive at a level which boasts good design and process. Similarly, batik grew up in Edinburgh area.
Previously, production and trade in a limited Batik Jambi contained in the sultanate era. Batik Jambi is the result of craft that can not be owned by anyone, he consumed only by people who have high levels of social life, such as the royal family or nobility. With the end of imperial rule jambi, Batik Jambi production decreased drastically. Even if there batik craftsmen, it was done by a few craftsmen who are already old.
In the colonial period, netherlands, news about Batik Jambi bloom again with the emergence of various articles written by writers dutch, one of which is BM Goslings. In his article, stating that the approval of Goslings from Prof. VAM Eerde he asks Resident H.E.K. Ezermann to investigate Batik Jambi. Around October 1928 came the response from Ezermann, that Dusun Tengah was at that time there was indeed an art of batik and craftsmen to produce beautiful work. (B. M. Goslings, 1928, 141)
Based on the same already seen that since the imperial era Jambi, Dutch colonial era, even to the Japanese war of independence, there is a local Batik Jambi but not yet mass-produced.
Since the New Order development, coaching and development of Batik Jambi have done back in incentives and bulk, if the 1980s was the dominant colors of the original Jambi, in the era of 90s was used colors cirebon pekalongan and brighter. Now, Batik Jambi back to its original color.
Batik Jambi characterized by a unique and exotic. Both in terms of color and motif. Most Batik Jambi dyes derived from natural materials, a mixture of many kinds of wood and plants that exist in jambi, like the sap wood and fruit of lambato and Bulian, pandan leaves, Kayu Tinggi and Sepang. In addition, there is also a mixture of two types of materials which do not exist in Jambi like seed of Kayu Tinggi and leaves of indigo, which is usually imported straight from Yogyakarta.
The color material addition, Batik Jambi has rich variety of motifs with bright colors as a symbol of joy and merriment jambi community. Carrying more than 31 Batik Jambi motifs can still be found, such as temples estuary jambi, Kaca Piring, Puncung Rebung, Angso Duo Bersayap Mahkota, Bulan Sabit-The crescent, Pauh (mango), Antlas (Plants), clouds, and cicadas.
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