What further questions after the Organization Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, Indonesian batik acknowledged as world heritage objects can not be answered in October 2009 on the community.
Various non-governmental activities here and there continues. Mercedes-Benz Indonesia one of them, by asking fashion designers to paint a car Carmanita Mercedes-Benz C250 CGI with the motif. Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo batik car launched at the City Hall in Jakarta on February 9, 2010. After that, the car is on display to various places.
The sports car-style maroon base color on the front and silver on the back. Carmanita, grandson of batik artist and songwriter child or mother Sudibjo Star Sud, bore the distinctive style of batik wear points with floral essence.
“Batik is derived from the point, so I use the dots to form a pattern. There is also a motive to show cracks batik features, “said Carmanita.
To make batik pattern on top of cars, Carmanita working with Tommy Dwi Sudjatmiko, owner of Graphic Mastomcustom Airbrush System, Jakarta, using airbrush techniques to work nearly three weeks.
“Mercedes Benz handed it to me. At first, I would wear pink, but it was too feminine. Therefore, appears maroon and silver are more neutral, “said Carmanita.
Documentation
UNESCO world heritage award did not object to the batik batik from Indonesia since lived and continue to feed its people. One effort is to document the non-governmental organizations and how to batik batik wear. There are collected, there is a collecting and writing history.
Batik collector and owner of the print batik industry Wungu Kencana, Hartono, for example, displaying a collection of batik pesisirannya two weeks ago welcomed the Lunar New Year. From the old cloth, seen people highly appreciate China’s hybrid batik.
Batik from Lasem from year 1890 to 1900 collection Hartono, for example, wearing shades of rose Kilin, lotus, chicken, and deer. Kilin mythological animal symbolizes something higher, could be office or spiritual level. “Lotus symbol of purity, meaning industrious chickens, and deer sustenance smoothly. So, there is hope for something in a sheet and people who take it, “said Hartono.
While in the House Rakuji, Cipete, South Jakarta, Asmoro Damais and Judi K. Achjadi from Wastra Documentation Center and the Indonesian Fashion exhibition presents the evolution of batik and kebaya, ranging from the use of Dutch women in Indonesia until the birth of Peranakan kebaya worn by China, complete with a batik from the early 20th century.
Dutch European women kebaya square, loose, white, adorned with lace at the edges, and decorated with hand embroidery on the inside.
The model was replicated China Peranakan women, with modifications. The shape follows the body and wide in the hips, wearing a lace on the edge with embroidered decorations machine. After the year 1920, European women are no longer recommended kebaya wearing outside the house because it is not a dress, dress.
The color white at first, but later became a colorful because white is the color of mourning. Options were more transparent fabric, voile or tulle Organdi or combined. “Translucent material to show the same clothes in good and also jewelry, such as a belt of silver or gold,” said Timothy Sunarya, Wastraprema association board.
Corak Batik always contains a certain meaning, depending on the social background of the user. For followers of Confucianism is concerned with education, according to Judi, the style of a growing lotus flower rises above the mud, for example, symbolizes the high status associated with education, such as a public servant. However, the lotus flower also symbolizes the seedy prosperity.
More than just showing off clothes, Asmoro say, this exhibition to document the information scattered in the community. “We hope anyone who has information about the fabric of Indonesia grandmother or relative willing to share that knowledge so that we have recorded history,” said Asmoro. Proven, fabric and clothing is also a social document, economic, and political communities.
