Well, it was when we started a while ago, we , that means me and the Pamekasan creative teams, producing couple of batik that were fine in quality and can be bit pricey at the time.
Looking at the quality now, it's good.
This one, the burgundy-maroon background batik ws from around 4 years ago. As we can see it was depicting bouquet, "buketan" they said in local dialect.
The key to understanding a piece of Pamekasan Batik is to look at the background. It always busy, just like "semarangan" did. It was and still believe that fine quality batik should be 'busy' at the background
By the way, if you see the background leaves, it contains 3 different color, white, yellow and red/burgundy.
And you know from this fact that it took 3 times process of exposing one-third of leaves to chemical dye, while the latter was closed by some fine wax to prevent penetration of unwanted piece.
Well, i'd posted second batch of our silk stock, and here they are.
Btw, some of them were posted in my facebook account ; wahyu subiyantoro; , and perhaps if you have a crush on them, and if they're still available, you could buy them. Just contact me and i'll see if they're still there (well, half of them are in my house, another is in Royal Plaza Outlet).
And oh yeah : these are buckels that also available in our outlets, in case our customer want the total (ethnic) look.
It's hand-made buckle in burned-finished copper. Pretty arent they....
It's kind of funny on how one marketing strategy can helps sales tremendeously. Well, not that dramatic, of course. But you get the idea.
The batik tulis ( hand-drawn batik) on silk is something deemed not very popular these days since it usually connected to the old-fashion feeling, more mature silk-shirt father (or even grandfather) kind of thing. Not cool. And quite expensive.
That's too bad since silk batik was and still something i find rather alluring, on how come someone rejected the idea of added luxury into your otherwise everyday clothes ensemble.
Well, in our store, for months we tried to sell those hand-drawn batik on silk with not-so-encouraging result. And then i saw friends use more affordable viscose stamp-batik for hip wrapper, beach-style but this time, topped with embroidered traditional cotton blouse (we called Kebaya) for informal function (and sometimes in more elaborate functions as well).
And we starts to sell , marketing our hand-drawn silk batik as luxurious alternative of beach hip wrapper.
And people buy to the idea.
Well, at least we can help our friends specialized in producing silk-based hand-drawn batik in Pamekasan, while aso producing healthy profit (not much, but healthy).
And i can find a good excuse to buy more of it (cannot help myself, they're gorgeous)
Here are some of our h
and-drawn Pamekasan style silk-based batik of our own.
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....
