New Era of Batik

Code: I

Classical print with elegant shape of modern Victorian. Suitable for a cocktail party and a semi - formal night.
Patterns on each dresses are different, only in white and brown color. All size to Small and Medium.


Code: II(a)


Code: II(b)(c)
Available in variety colors.

These dresses are made to show off the legs. Dress (a) available in 2 colors and patterns, it is a waxed pattern by a large copper stamp. Dress (b) available in 4 different colors and patterns. The pattern were made by canting (drawn with wooden pen filled with liquid wax). All size.



Code: III (Check for Availability)


Code: IV (a) (b)
Available in Yellow and Green.


Code: V (a) (b) (c)
Ready to Go dress. Available in 3 different color (as shown on top)



Men's (3 different colors&pattern)
There are 2 types for vest, front batik pattern and back batik pattern.

Price of dresses are AU$65.00
Vest/Mens AU$35.00


Others
Pictures below shows the dresses and clothes Darbani sells.


Code: VI (a) (b)
*Different colors available


Code: VII
*Different colors available


Code: VIII (a)(b)(c)
T's dresses
*Different colors available

All items price on top is AU$35


Beach/Sleepwear
Pictures shown below are not complete, these are for the style example. There are different choices and colors for the clothings.


Code: IX
Available in Shock Pink, White, Yellow, Brown, Orange, and Baby Blue
Item's price AU$10.00


Code: X
*Different colors available


Code: XI
*Different colors available

Item's price AU$15.00


- For Product enquiry please call 02 9299 9187 / 0422 639 627
blakedu@gmail.com
Thanks to Nia Inggita and Soraya Nauman for the modeling!

Batik of Java

Batik is generally thought of as the most quintessentially Indonesian textile. Motifs of flowers, twinning plants, leaves buds, flowers, birds, butterflies, fish, insects and geometric forms are rich in symbolic association and variety; there are about three thousand recorded batik patterns.

The patterns to be dyed into the the clothe are drawn with a canting, a wooden 'pen' fitted with a reservoir for hot, liquid wax. In batik workshops, circles of women sit working at clothes draped over frames, and periodically replenish their supply of wax by dipping their canting into a central vat. Some draw directly on the the cloth from memory; others wax over faint charcoal lines.
This method of drawing patterns in wax on fine machine-woven cotton was practiced as a form of meditation by the female courtiers of Central Java; traditionally, batik tulis (tulis means 'write' in Indonesian) is produced by women.

In the 19th century, the application of waxed patterns with a large copper stamp or cap saved the batik industry from competition with cheap printed European cloth. The semi-industrial nature of cap work allows it to be performed by men. Batik motifs recall characters from the Hindu epics, plants, animals, sea creatures and gamalan melodies.

In Surakarta rich creams and browns are juxtaposed with tinges of yellowish gold.White, undyed cloth is left to contrast with the sombre opulence of brown and blue dyes in Yogjakarta.

The palette of the north coast were influenced by lively maritime trade and the textile traditions of the Chinese and Arab mercantile communities living in port and coastal towns.