Few Steps Closer : Pamekasan's Journey into Perfection

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Oleh-oleh perjalanan ke Desa Podhek Pamekasan seminggu lalu, bersama Mbak Niyah, Bang Rusydi dan Mbak Myshat Andaya , menemui rekan-rekan pengrajin.
Untuk saya yang sudah berkali-kali berkunjung, tidak ada ekspektasi khusus selain bertemu teman-teman dan melihat karya mereka yang terakhir. Tetapi ada satu "kejutan" yang disimpan Bang Rusydi dan Teamnya untuk kami : masterpiece dalam proses kelahirannya.
Sering kami berbincang bahwa pencapaian yang ingin diraih adalah melahirkan "real" batik halus di bumi Pamekasan. Sehalus apa ? : bagi rekan-rekan pecinta wastra (batik) sudah tidak usah ditanya lagi. Hanya satu tolok ukur kehalusan saat ini : The real masterpiece of OST.
Cecekan halus OST klasik ini yang akhirnya ; saya rasa ; berhasil didekati oleh Bang Rusydi dan Team-nya. Belum bisa dikatakan sudah berhasil karena batik ini (semua yang ada di album ini berasal dari satu lembar batik) dimaksudkan untuk menjadi multi-colors, bukan biron. Tapi (meminjam teman whatsapp saya yang kemaren saya forwardkan gambar-gambar ini) biron-nya-pun sudah menggetarkan sukma.
Tidak ada 'roh pamekasan' di sini? Engga masalah, karena kita sedang me-redifinisi-kan identitas Pamekasan (seperti kata Bang Rusydi dulu : saya bertujuan membuat batik halus, bukan yang 'lain-lain').
Buat rekan-rekan pecinta batik, titip doa ya biar si bakal 'supermodel' ini bisa lahir dengan selamat, karena ;tahu sendiri khan; masih panjang, jalan si Biron ini menjadi batik masterpiece tonggak sejarah peningkatan kualitas Bapk Pamekasan.

 

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 New Breed of Batik

It's not brand new in concept, but it's quite interesting on how Madurese Pamekasan had adapted it so quickly : it is called Market Demand. It consist of both buying power and general taste.

The new breed of Pamekasan Batik  has its own contemporary approach : it is ‘relatively quick in execution, pop (popular) in appearance and strangely, aesthetically pleasing in the eyes.

I share couple of this so called contemporary in-expensive fabric ready to be use directly into some shirt for both men and women (since almost all regencies in Java has ruled that Friday is the batik-wearing day for all government officers)

The beauty derives from its simplistic non-heavy design and philosophy (in fact, it’s known that this batik has no philosophical ‘quest’ whatsoever). And it executed beautifully. It plays with colors, geometric forms and repetition.