Indonesian Batik Fabric Guide: From Royal Courts to Quilting

Authentic Indonesian batik fabric featuring hand-dyed Java motifs created with traditional hot wax-resist techniques

Indonesian batik fabric is a globally celebrated textile art form born in the Indonesian archipelago, recognized by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on October 2, 2009. More than just a patterned cloth, authentic batik is an intricate wax-resist dyeing process where artisans apply hot liquid wax (known locally as […]

Indonesian Batik Fabric for Quilting: Ultimate Guide to Colors & Precuts

Bundles of 100% cotton Indonesian batik fabric for quilting including Fat Quarters, Jelly Rolls, and patchwork quilt blocks

Choosing authentic Indonesian batik fabric for quilting is one of the most rewarding ways to elevate a patchwork or appliqué project into an heirloom masterpiece. Originally inspired by the traditional craft of piecing together leftover artisan textile trimmings so that no hand-dyed cloth went to waste, quilting batik fabric has evolved into a premier global textile […]

Batik Ceplok

Form of pattern is a pattern of very ancient poached kawung. A pattern with this poached motifs inspired by fruit shape kawung (fruit or fruit aren roof) divided by four. The fourth part of the fruit together essentially represent the four directions (directions) of Buddhism. Basically, the fried egg is a category based on the […]

Sido Mukti

Batik Motif Sido Mukti contains the meaning of prosperity. For Java, the coveted life besides Excellency budi, speech, and action, certainly is the attainment of mukti or prosperity, both in the world and in the hereafter. Everyone is sure to find prosperity and inner serenity was born and. Prosperity and peace would not be achieved […]

History of Bali Batik

When you come back to see how the existence of the batik of bali, then in fact there have been changes and begins since the era of the 1970s. However with the industry, batik is still makin squirm in. 1997. However, in fact, batik fabric himself has also enliven the excitement related noise. This is […]

Carolina Josephine van Franquemont and Dutch Batik

Red Riding Hood by Caroline van Franquemont

Carolina Josephine van Franquemont is Netherlands women were touted as the first Netherlands citizens established a batik factory in Indonesia. In the hands of Caroline-lah, stands a batik factory in Surabaya in 1840 that would later become part of the history of the development of batik in Indonesia, particularly the coastal batik. Caroline, who eventually […]