Another Tanjungbumi

Well apparently i bough other than just sarong in my trip to tanjungbumi. The two style that appear large both in design approach due to its strong-characteristic of "latar" or background, are crackled brown known locally as "Kulit Sapi" or cowhide, and "tarpotte" or whities.....
here they are....

Feeling Creative

Don't you think it's kind of bit weird to the sentence "i have borst of creativity just by finding the right pen" ? Well it did, to me at least. And if you substitute the word creative to productive, well, i'm feeling it right now.
Since Bang Rusydi of Nargis Batik challenged me with a pice of processed cotton to draw months ago, i'm feeling constant difficulties to pour my ideas into real lines. And it's manly because of not finding the suitable pen. Simply because of that. I dont know whether this processed cotton has something at the surface, or something elses, the balpoint i use (yes, ballpoint, sir) keeps jamming and jamming. and it frustates me since this burst-of-creativity doesnt come so often. I want to pour everything in that time,completely without any small 'mechanical' distraction of finding your pen refused to coperate with your mind. 
And i found one. 
And everything flow to places....
And here are they....ready to go (to the production studios in Pamekasan, that is).  

 

Creative Setting

Well, it turns out fun.

The Pasongsongan had the opportunity to be part of Dji Sam Soe " Kampoeng Ramadhan" annual bazaar held in Jatim Expo Building in A Yani Surabaya thims month.
Aside from the usual display booth,which i'm quite happy with the dislay arrangement (we incorporated our low traditional-style team cabinet) the Dji Sam Soe Team had this idea to held small gathering of people, batiking togeher as part of its interaction program. And of course i was delightfully agreed . It was one thing to read and hear all things batik but it was compleely different story to have your hand trying those cantings and hot wax, creating images to piece of cotton and trying to avoid spilling disaster (lol).
Groups of young people waiting their turn to try their batik skill and it was really fun to realized that making batik is not that simple. It needs sort of technique. Why ?
Well. first : canting itself a foreign writing device we ough to use it everyday.

 
 

And the hot-wax as its ink , well, it HOT wax , man. It cannot run if it's not liquid enough , or put it this way : it has to stay hot. And Acodents do happened. Frequently (ouch..). 
And strange but true : it need some kind of self-discipline. 
Batking isn't drawing on aper with modern-day pen some sort. The canting as your pen can be as easy drawing device by the one mastering it. But many of this youngsters are first-timer. So here comes slow and repeating learning process.Trying to keep the right angle, both for the sprout of canting and your left hand holding the fabric.
But as we had said above , it turns out fun.
For you wants to participate in the next event : we'll do batik experience, again in July 28th.
See you there.  
   

Friday Batik Parade

It’s Friday and if you’re happens to be one of government officers in Java Island, so you’re most probably wear batik shirt (both you guys and girls). And why not like wearing this genuinely hand-crafted / hand-drawn Batik Fabric, both vibrant in appearance and guaranteed that it wouldn’t  at all, makes you 10-years older.

The batik tulis man’s shirt in short sleeves has a hot item in my stores, partly because nowadays gentlemen are more fashion-conscious than before (really!!) that they’re realized that being ‘wearing the same identical batik like your coworker’s not cool’ , and ‘hot pink’s not for girl domain any longer (though it still I the area of batik. Wonder why people in Indonesia seems more tolerant while seeing gentlemen wearing the most garish-color or crazy-patterned fabric AS LONG as it is batik).

Well, if that’s the way it is, the, so be it.

Happy Friday and wear your batik proudly 

* dont know why this setting decide that the best layout possibel for my photos will be of lay on the wrong side, well...   

The Muse

Last week i'd delivered few of my merchandise to kemang Village Annual Christmas Bazaar, and we met this fabulous lady that gave me tons of tips for my batik and ladies bag (we're actually needed it, because like you said, we're not the one using it we're all guys). Lots of fun meeting batik lover there, but kind of sad because i saw there that most of the people knowing enough about batik was eventually foreigners that care about our culture. But i think that's for another chapter. Here i post the pic of our fabulous lady with the bag of her choice. Dear Milady, thank you for your support and "you know we adore you". thanks.

common beauty 4

Batik Tulis Madura yang satu ini sebenarnya tidak tergolong kontemporer dan saya sendiri juga gak terlalu 'gimana' gitu, tapi ternyata populer juga (banyak yang beli) , mungkin karena penampilannya yang cerah ya. Putihan seperti ini sebenarnya cukup 'repot' proses membuatnya, karena yang ditutup malam khan yang bagian background putih-nya , yang luaas banget, baru pattern nya di'colet' dengan warna-warna pilihan. Sebenarnya ini ada 3 lembar kain batik madura yang berbeda, diposting jadi satu karena tergolong satu kategori 'putih'an itu. kebanyakan memanfaatkan motif burung (cenderawasih atau phoenix) dan bunga-bunga di sela-sela semak rambat.