The Making of Batik - About Java and Indonesia

The Making of Batik - Batik is originally from Indonesia. This kind of cloth is distinct from other cloth from different country. The pattern of the cloth is unique and have a sense of art. This is Indonesia culture in fashion form. And then let's figure out how to make a batik from scratch. This is thoose steps.

1. Nganji - The Making of Batik from Indonesia

Nganji process - from Handbook of Indonesian Batik. Before being labeled, usually mori washed first with water until the starch is lost original and clean, then the kanji again. Motif batik should be coated with a starch with a certain thickness, if too thick will attach less good night and if too thin then the result tonight will be "mblobor" which will be difficult to remove.

With the highest quality Mori [Primisima] does not need to be starched again, because the thickness of the kanji already qualified.

2. Ngemplong - The Making of Batik 

Usually just a smooth mori need dikemplong before dibatik. Mori blue for direct printed batik can usually be done without the preparatory work.  The purpose of ngemplong is for mori become slippery and loose. For this purpose mori put on a chip of wood and pounded regularly by wood bat as well.

Mori will be easier so the results are better.

3. Nglowong - Attachment malam[candles] first

Done kemplong, mori is ready to work. Batik fabrication technique consists of the main job, starting from the main job, starting with nglowong is tasting or batik motifs above mori using the canting. Nglowong on the cloth is also called ngengreng and after it continued with nerusi on the other side.

4. Nembok - sticking the second malam

Before dipped into dye, the desired part remains white, should be closed by night. Layers tonight proverbial wall to hold substances do not seep gets perwarna for the closed night. Therefore, this work is called a brick, if there is seepage due tembokannya less powerful then the white should be visible colored line 2 which will reduce the beauty of batik. That is why the night the wall must be strong and resilient, others by night klowong that actually should not be too resilient to be easily scraped.

5. Medel - first the dye Dyeing

Medel goal is to give a dark blue color as base color fabric. Relic of this work takes several days for using indigo dye [Javanese language: tom].This dye is very slow to absorb the cloth so it must be done over and over again, now with modern color material can be done quickly.

6. Ngerok - eliminate malam from klowong process

The part that will be in soga for brown, scraped with Cawuk [sort of a blunt knife is made of zinc] to get rid of his night.

7. Mbironi - use of malam into three

The next job adalam Mbironi, which consists of closure with wax cloth parts that remain are expected to blue, while the part that will be in soga remain open. Mbironi job is done on two sides of the fabric.

8. Nyoga - The Making of Batik 

Nyoga is a time consuming process, because the dye into soga. If using natural soga, was not just one or two times only, should be repeated. Each time immersion al fresco had dried. By using synthetic soga then this process can be shortened only half an hour. The term is taken from the word menyoga certain tree which the tree produces skin color soga [brown] when immersed in water.

9. Nglorod - The Making of Batik 

After obtaining the desired color, the fabric had undergone a process again that night which still lag mori should be eliminated, the way to put into boiling water, called Nglorod. 

10. Nyoga - second Dipping