Batik
バティック（ジャワ更紗） / traditional–present / Technique / Textile Traditions
Java's cloth dyed again and again through wax resist — the canting's drawn line building a pattern language of rank, region and rite.
Crackle of the wax resist / The canting's line / Layered indigo and soga brown / A semantic pattern system
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Parang patterns and court restriction / Solo versus Yogyakarta styles / the multicultural coastal batiks