Now, I want to let you know about Indonesia's traditional clothing. Indonesia known as Batik country. Batik is a cloth that traditionally uses a manual wax-resist dyeing technique. You can pronounce it like this: BatikJavanese pronunciation: [ˈbateʔ]; Indonesian: [ˈbatɪʔ]; English: /ˈbætɪk/ or /bəˈtiːk/). Pretty simple, huh?? No?? Well, like this. Do you know Bali? Yes. Say 'Ba' in batik like you say 'Bali'. Then, say 'tik' like 'tick-tock' but remove the word 'c'. Yeah, Batik. hohohoo..
Another meaning of Batik is clothing or fabric including the use of certain motifs that have uniqueness. Batik Indonesia, as the overall engineering, technology, and development-related motives and culture, UNESCO has been designated a Cultural Heritage for Humanity Oral and Nonbendawi (Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity) since October 2, 2009.
Although the word's origin is Javanese, its etymology may be either from the Javanese amba ('to write') and titik ('dot' or 'point'), or constructed from a hypothetical Proto-Austronesian root *beCík, meaning 'to tattoo' from the use of a needle in the process. The word is first recorded in English in the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1880, in which it is spelled battik. It is attested in the Indonesian Archipelago during the Dutch colonial period in various forms: mbatek, mbatik, batek and batik.
Here's examples of Batik :
Batik is identically with Java island, like batik Solo, batik Pekalongan, batik Cirebon, etc. Except batik, in Indonesia also have another clothing or fabric like ulos, songket, etc.
Batik usually uses as a formal clothing or for uniform. But now the government want the Indonesian people with proud use Batik as a daily clothes. So a lot of designers in Indonesia make casual clothes for teenagers and spread Batik to the universe. Batik can be modified with beads, ribbons or anything you like to make chick designs like these:
