How To Batiks

Batik is a traditional cultural activities are to be maintained in order to remain consistent as to how it came from. Although batik motifs and patterns in the present have varied, the process of how to batik is still basically the same. According to the manufacturing process, the technique can be divided into batik tulis, batik printing, and printed batik. Here is the process of how to batik:

Tools needed:

• gawangan:

Gawangan, tools used how to batik

A place to put the fabric will do batik. Gawangan can be made of wood or bamboo. Gawangan should be made in such a way that a strong, lightweight, and easily removable.

Pendulum, tools used how to batik

• Pendulum:

Serves to hold to the fabric of the new dibatik not easily displaced when blown or drawn by the batik by accident. The pendulum is made of tin, wood, or stone that is inserted into the bag.

Wok, tools used how to batik

• Wok :

Wok is tooling weeks to melt the evening, made of copper or clay. Pans should be stemmed so easily raised and lowered from the fireplace without using other tools.

Small stove, tools used
how to batik

• Anglo / small stove :

 Stove is a tool to make a fire, is used to heat the pan and the ingredients used to make batik. Stoves can be oil or gas fired, or that use charcoal brazier.

 Canting :

Canting, tools used how to batik

Canting is a tool for making batik, which is to move or take fluids at night, then write batik patterns on cloth that will be made batik. Usually made of copper that ends resembling a bird's beak. Canting is made of copper and bamboo as the handle, but now many are using Teflon material.

• Malam / wax:  

Malam, tools used how to batik

Malam (wax) is the material used to make batik. The nights were used for different batik with wax (candle) used. Night to be rapidly absorbed batik fabric, but can be easily separated when the.malam batik is made from a mixture of different types of materials such as gondorukem, fat, coconut oil, and parafin.Sebenarnya malam is not empty (missing) because in the end the night will be taken back on the mbabar, the workmanship of batik to batikan into cloth.

• Filter Malam :

Filter, tools how to batik

A tool for filtering hot malam with a lot of dirt. If the night is not filtered, the dirt can interfere with the flow of malam at the end of the canting. Meanwhile, when the malam is filtered, dirt can be removed so it does not interfere with the course of the malam at the end of canting when used for batik.

There are various forms of sieve, the finer the better because it will be a lot of dirt left behind. Thus, hot malam will be clean of dirt when used for batik.

• Cloth / fabric.

Cloth is a cloth to cover the thigh of the batik being exposed to droplets of hot malam when canting is blown or the time to make.

Mori, tools how to Batik

• Mori

Mori is batik material made of cotton. Mori quality assortment and determine the good or bad kind of batik cloth produced. Mori necessary adjusted to the desired length short fabric.

• Dhingklik (seating)

Is the place to sit batik. Usually made of bamboo, wood, plastic, or metal. Currently, the seat can be easily purchased in stores.

• Dyes

Dyes, tools used how to batik

 There are 2 types of dyes are natural dyes and synthetic dyes. Natural dyes are used when wanting distinctive colors, which can not be obtained from artificial colors. Everything natural is special, and sophisticated technology could not match the natural thing.

That's the kind of batik equipment that must exist. Batik process requires considerable time, especially if the fabric is very broad and coraknya dibatik quite complicated.

In the next article we will discuss about how to make batik.