Looking for Batik in The Coastal City
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It’s time we travel to Indonesia, precisely visited Cirebon city. The city is the third largest city of Cirebon in West Java province, outside the metropolitan area, after the Bandung and Tasikmalaya. The city is located on the north coast of Java, known as coast lines. Coast path is a road that connects the populous Indonesia Jakarta-Cirebon-Semarang-Surabaya.
Due to its strategic location, namely at the intersection between Jakarta, Bandung, and Semarang, Cirebon City makes a very suitable and potential to be a land of investment in all sectors such as hotels, restaurants, shopping centers, and education, so the town of Cirebon is an excellent choice appropriate to invest.
Cirebon city is the center of business, industry and services in the northern region of West Java. Lots of good
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small-scale industries, medium, and large investment in this city. In Cirebon is also still well maintained its traditional culture. One of the traditional work is BATIK fabric.
In Cirebon, there are two kinds of decorative batik, batik namely coastal and palace. Batik coast, his motives are many marked with pictures of flora and fauna, such as marine and terrestrial animals, fish, trees, leaves. Who’s palace batik motive tends to be ornaments in the form of rocks (Wadas), train barong lion, dragon seba, arum garden and chicken base.
Variety of decorative batik palace is divided into two types, the first that used the retainer or courtiers. Batik to courtier and a large variety of decorations strong. Second, commonly used by the noble variety of fine jewelry and small. The colors of the original palace of Cirebon’s batik, colored generally Sogan, black, dark blue and yellow.
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The influence of culture and belief in Cirebon’s batik patterns and motifs, among which is symbolized in batik selampad plates and dishes. The carved decoration on the batik inspired by Chinese porcelain plate arrangement used wall hangings Astana Gunung Jati and the palace. The carved decoration is Chinese style influences taste accumulation skipper Chinese-batik that time.
Cirebon’s Batik is generally red, blue, green and white. It was a typical coastal batik colors.
