Batik Indonesia

Indonesia is a country that has a batik motif regions in the world, it is based on a great variety of batik in each region in Indonesia, such as batik Solo, batik Jogja, batik Pekalongan, batik Kalimantan, and others. In this article I will discuss about batik Pekalongan.

1. History of batik Pekalongan
   History of batik Pekalongan is almost same as batik Solo and batik Jogja, which comes from the palace. Batik Pekalongan is the result of people who were displaced from the Mataram palace to Pekalongan because of the Mataram palace disunity. The disunity was caused by the Dutch who colonized Indonesia. Some areas in Pekalongan are growing rapidly that is in the Buaran, Wonopringgo, and Pekajangan. At first the process of making batik is using the manual method that is drawn and written by hand and use natural dyes. This lasted until the 20s century. With changing times it has become a popular batik using tools and chemicals to make batik cloth.
2. Characteristic of batik Pekalongan
   Actually, patterns and motif of batik Pekalongan is similiar with batik Solo and batik Jogja. The difference is the color of batik Solo and batik Jogja dominant with white and brown. Meanwhile, batik Pekalongan prefer combining several elements of color. The combination of multiple colors which made batik Pekalongan look dinamic and modern. This is which causes batik Pekalongan quite famous among the other batik.

Batik Pekalongan is one that has been famous in the world, it is proved batik Pekalongan been exported to many overseas countries, from the asia, australia, europe, to america. This fact proves that Indonesia can compete on an international level.