A new phase of life on sabbatical after 2 yrs 1 mth of work. Went to Bali. One of the places and first one we went was to the Sari Amerta Batik collection. It was on 2nd day of the trip 14 August 2012. The whole trip was from 13 August to16 August 2012.
At the place, a lady had introduced us the manufacturing process of the batik materials, before we went into the shop and took our sweet time to shop, while the tour guide and driver were waiting. It was a private tour with my wife to be, and the driver and tour guide, the 4 of us. The below is the method of batik processing method (in their indonesian english translation which will not be fully coherent) which I will be featuring in this entry:
1. Making designs on the white material.
a. Copying the Original designs
b. Directly without copying before
There are not used for stamp processing
2. Covering designs with wax (klowong) on both sides
a. Filling desings with Ornaments and small dots
b. Covering some special part of the designs to get the second colour (sawuk)
c. Covering some special part of the designs to get the third colour (tembokan).
Note: For stamp processing, they can directly do without making designs, for every stamp has its own design.
3. Dyeing for the first colour
4 Scrapping some parts of the wax to get second colour by using a kind of knife(cawuk). Omiting all the wax by putting the material in boiling water so there are two colours, blue and white.
5. Covering some parts of the designs where are dots to them
Note: After fifth processing we usually put dot on the lines of the designs to make them nicer.
6. Dyeing for the second colour, we can dye this many times if we want some more colour.
7. Omitting all the wax by putting the material in boiling water.
8. Washing till the material is clean then we dry this in the shade.
Note. The Traditional colour are usually blue, brown and light yellow. It is to be used as live symbol.
