Reference 8 Batik Villages For Those Of You Who Are Interested In Learning To Batik

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JAKARTA - You can spend vacation time in various ways. One of them is by trying out educational tours to destinations that offer the beauty of Indonesian culture such as batik villages. Not only did you have the opportunity to see closely the batik-making process, here you can also experiment to learn batik from the craftsmen.

Check out the reviews of eight Batik villages in Indonesia, which VOI summarizes from various sources, make your references learn to batik and be closer to the country's culture.

Batik Certificate Giriloyo is the largest writing batik center of the palace in Yogyakarta. Nearly 90 percent of the population in this area works as a batik craftsman. Here, you can get a batik experience through the workshop tour packages provided. In addition, you will also be presented with a calming view of asri while batik, because this center is under the foot of the Imogiri hills.

Not far from Yogyakarta, there is Kampung Batik Laweyan in Solo. The batik industry here has started 500 years ago or around the 19th century. To date, there are at least 250 batik motifs that have been patented as typical of Kampung Batik Laweyan.

Other activities that you can do besides batik in Laweyan Village, are to go around while taking pictures in various buildings with the architectural style of Java, Europe, Chinese, and Islam in this village.

If you are on vacation in Semarang, have time to visit Batik Village which is located not far from Kota Lama. Arriving here, you will be greeted with various beautiful colorful graffiti depicting batik and diversity in Indonesia.

Not only for shopping, but those of you who want to learn the basics of batik can study in this village as well. Although it is called Kampung Batik Semarang, it turns out that the batik collection in this batik village is not only typical of Semarang, but also various batik motifs from all over Indonesia.

The next reference for Batik village in Central Java is Kampung Batik Kauman in Pekalongan. In this village, there are various kinds of batik motifs resulting from writing batik techniques, stamps, and combinations of both. This village is not only a destination for shopping for batik, but also as a cultural center. Because, here, you can learn about the history of batik, to try to make your own batik with the direct guidance of the craftsmen.

Still in Central Java, there is also a center for batik craftsmen in Batik Lasem Village, Rembang. Lasem batik is one of the popular batik motifs in Indonesia. Lasem batik is also known as Batik Tiga Negeri, because of the coloring process through three processes.

The peculiarity of Lasem Batik Cloth lies in its pattern which is a combination of the influence of Chinese culture, local culture of the coastal communities north of Central Java, as well as the culture of Solo and Yogyakarta Palaces. In this village, you can directly see the process of making and coloring the Batik Lasem cloth.

Who would have thought that in the middle of the high building in the capital city, there is one special place for learning batik, namely in Batik Palbatu Village, which is located in Menteng Dalam, Tebet, South Jakarta. In this village, there is a studio for those of you who want to learn to batik. There are also batik outlets that sell various batik motifs, ranging from betawi mask motifs, fireworks motifs, to batirwood gelatik birds motifs.

In order to make the cultural atmosphere feel more, the roads and walls in this village are deliberately painted with batik motifs. This is also what brought Kampung Batik Palbatu to two MURI records with the longest road records with batik motifs (133.9 m), as well as a record number of houses with the most batik motifs.

Kampung Batik Trusmi is one of the creative industrial centers in Cirebon. In addition to batik, the area located in Plered, Cirebon, about four kilometers west of Cirebon City also provides culinary tours, such as tofu gejrot and empanal gentong.

Kampung Batik Trusmi is also known as a center for arts and cultural training. For example, for the procurement of seminars or batik training. For a long time, Batik Trusmi has been an icon of the national cloth collection. In addition to Cirebon batik, Batik Trusmi provides written batik, coastal batik, and palace batik. Understandably, there are two palaces that strongly influence the batik keratin motif. namely the Canoman Palace and the Kasepuhan Palace.

East Java also has a batik village, namely Batik Jetis Village, in Lemahputro Village, Sidoarjo. Local residents have been struggling with the batik industry since the 1970s. Jetis batik has bright colors such as red, blue, yellow, and green. While the most famous motive is the gender's motif. Similar to other batik centers, here you can visit to learn things about batik, also shopping for batik directly from the craftsmen.

Those are eight cities in Indonesia that you can visit if you are interested in batik. Learning a lot about batik can be one of the efforts to preserve Indonesian culture.