Pamekasan Pictures back in time...

 

Throwback Thursday

A Year ago  i was very lucky to have invited to see the very important and absolutely precious batik collection of Bapak Hartono Sumarsono, the owner of "Batik Kencana Ungu" 

These are few of them for you to enjoy. . 

My Friend's Creation

He's government officer actually but i knew him at Batik Market as juragan that own batik malam,s stall. 
And this is his work. Beautiful isnt it. 

Another Classical Approach on Batik Tulungagung

Here some pictures with batik from batikker group of Mas Bobby Satriyo of "Batik Liris Manis Majan"  (you might see him on Facebook under that name). It has kain panjang format, and in pagi-sore-section. 
The color seem unusual since it has greenish tinge.but everything's within the recognizable gajah modo color scheme. 

The left section is the garland (loosely pictured buketan) while the right section is mythical bird of paradise against diagonal stripes of various isen-isen like ukel, beras wutah, kricak, parang etc (you might find these patterns under different names all over the places, due to the local dialect or different interpretation of the same pictures). 

The Classic Approach on Tulungagung Batik

Sometimes you just blown away with something so classic you feels instant connection to it. Classic batiks for the most indonesian was part of their memory of younger era of themselves. Mom went to formal function with neatly tucked hip-wrapper batik sogan, Pop being dress-up in long-sleeve, their baby borother's sling batik craddle, image of their night blanket, etc. 
And so is this one, well, in some extent...
A piece of batik classic Tulungagung in Majan Gajah Mada style, by mbak Yunar. 
It's classic, with known color scheme of 5, blue, black, yelllow, green , and of course , sogan brown and traditional process. I means that the first step was to start with darkest color of blue to make outlines of design, and then boil it down to rid off the first waxing process. It means more time and resources. And automatically , more expensive batik. 
As you notice from detailed pics, the outline's not even a line. It consist of tiny white dots within a dark blue portion. rows of dots like boats on the river. More time-consuming process to get through.... 

You have to notice that it isnt evenly designed through out the body. there's square that has different pattern from adjacent area. It is called tumpal, special portion in a sarong that indicate special area to wear in front or behind the body. 








Design of the body follow the classic lereng, family of diagonal-oriented design, called "Udan Liris" , or "gentle rain" dpicting variety of different stripes of patterns, always odd in number. The larger motif is bird of paradise, symbol of great beauty and personality.

Here and there we could recognize fans, proof for oriental influence. Overall, this design follow those of Central Java "Sudagaran" , classic pattern of either Sultanate of Yogyakarta or Surakarta, but added with merchant-class more personal flavor.