I'd stubled upon this image of beautiful and exotic textiles from the company named VLISCO, major producer of wax-resistant textile process that dominated the upper market of Africa's affluent segment . It's vibrant color instantly caught my attention, especially for their resemblance of equally bold graphic and hue of Batik Madura. Turns out that this company has long history with batik industry in Indonesia especially in Central Java (as you know, South Africa was once dominated by Dutch as was the case with Indonesia).
It's kind of interesting story on how this unique process of textile creation can make themselves much relevant with current situation without sacrificing too much of its originality (many of their products still use wax-resistant process although the major process is now more mechanical than it was once before).
Positive alternative to our batik industry, though..
Jumat, 07 Mei 2010
It's Gone
It was kind of sad experience, since there were personal stories in each of every items, whether it was about their uniqueness in quality, the way i purchased it, or just me admiring their stunningly beautiful craftmanship.
My fellow collectors had showed great sympathy, some even lend their vast network to grab something;well, anything; news about the re-appearance of this high-quality batik.
You know that this 'batik world's kind of inter-connected, people shared the same passion seems to be connected each other through the mutual love of this special art, and when we're talking about distribution of something not-too-cheap like these collector's quality batiks , we're talking about few people that both appreciative and don;t mind to spend premium price upon something rare and special.
Well, days had gone and we were chasing the wrong path (i did call police this time) but i'd learned something that it's kind of better not to love something too deep that we're already know that eventually everything will vanish sometime.
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