Indonesian Batik : Method of Making

There are some basically method of making Indonesian batik textile.

A. Traditional Method or Handmade

1. Batik Tulis or Traditional Hand Drawn
Batik tulis described for batik textile which fully made using canting, canting is a tools which useful for placing the bee's wax to the surface of the textile, this like drawing activity. This is the highest batik quality.

2. Batik Cap or Tjap or Traditional Hand Stamped
Batik cap described for batik textile which fully made using canting cap or block, canting cap usually made of copper materials which has designed following the batik motif, just place the canting cap on the textile’s surface so the motif will attached.

3. Batik Kombinasi or Traditional Combination
Batik kombinasi was mixed of the both batik tulis and batik cap method.

B. Modern Method or Manufacture
This is modern printing technique, also known as direct printing because not using bee’s wax for covered the motif when making the dyed coloring.

Just a short article but hope it useful.