Batik Lifestyle

Recently Batik Lifestyle has swarmed the fashion industry, not only it is the prominent dress code locally but extending to the worldwide stages as well. A formal ceremony would not be as elegant if any participants not wearing Batik, on the contrary more and more people today are willing to dress Batik clothing to appreciate the matching formal nuances. Batik is a cloth which traditionally has been produced through a manual wax-resist dyeing technique process for generations.

Batik Lifestyle is also gaining more appreciation amongst the young hip generation which undoubtedly triggered by local prominent fashion designers. It is a tribute to the persistence of these designers striving hard to make refreshing yet attractive stylistic innovations. Partly due to the growing people abroad recognize Batik as our own unique heritage and quite a significant numbers copying even claiming Batik Lifestyle as theirs.

It is not until the turn of the last century that Batik is shown at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, following a mere piece of Batik cloth being exhibited by a Dutch merchant named Van Rijekevorsel at an ethnic museum in Rotterdam on the year of 1873. Coincidentally to mark its centennial introduction a local designer has recently published a book by the title of The 20^th Century Batik Masterpieces.

Though this article will not dwell further on its content but rather merely pointing out that the book writer is a relatively new player in the Batik clothing design. Instead of the popular Javanese mainstream, Komar Batik designer is typically adopted Cirebon style Batik. It is also quite a coincident that we stumbled upon this kind of Batik story during the recent trip to Bandung.

Hence our Bandung Travel has revealed a sort of enlightenment on our own Batik awareness. As one of our own heritage, batik is referred to and hence being introduced world widely on the History of Java book published in London on 1817 by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. The designer is also offering his facility for those who have the interest to learn by doing Batik making process.