Discover beauty of Indonesia
While traveling with the Master Lin and Grandmaster Tio
Museum Batik Danar Hadi
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
Museum of Batik Danar Hadi
PT Batik Danar Hadi proudly presents
Danar Hadi Batik Museum established to highlight the city of Surakarta
Hadiningrat (Solo) which is renowned as a cultural and touristic city.
Displayed in this museum are antique batiks that were created through
the period of time before and during the Dutch and Japanese occupation,
till a few decades after Indonesia proclaimed its independence.
Introducing this museum to other regions within Indonesia and other
countries is expected to enhance the image of Solo and to increase its
economic development.
In this place, guests can experience Javanese art at its finest, by
observing the intricate process of making batik or enjoy traditional
Javanese performing arts presented at the beautiful old building having
the splendor of traditional Javanese architecture, nDalem Wuryaningratan.
Displayed in this gallery are the antique batiks that were created
through the period of time before and during the Dutch and Japanese
occupancy, till the independence of Indonesia. Observe batik art at its
finest, which includes the Batik Kraton, Batik Belanda, Batik Cina,
Batik Hokokai, Batik Indonesia and Batik Saudagaran.
The old building of Ndalem Wuryanigratan itself is promised to be an
interesting object for cultural tourism, displaying the spendor of
traditional Javanese architecture.
A brilliant result of a hard work, either regarded from the aspect of
the ability in creating designs, the success in its field, care and the
will of preserving the art of batik or the impacts on the lives of the
people involved, is not something that exists without struggle,
diligence and sincerity.
In the middle of changes of times and environments, Batik Danar Hadi is
always aimed to be able to survive within the turbulence of the batik
trade.
The struggle, diligence and sincerity, beginning from three generations
before, had resulted in works that worth of being recorded in the
history of batik development in Indonesia.
Activities, concerning researches and developments, since this factory
was a small scale industry until at last became a big batik industry,
have been carried on from generation to generation. All kinds of batik
created, developed under the influence of so many culture and
environments become the main references of Danar Hadi`s Batik.
From the time when natural dyes were the only dyes available until the
time when chemical dyes entered the world of batik, Batik Danar Hadi has
been the only kind of batik which always appears with motifs and colors
preferred by the Indonesian community.
Batik with the isen tanahan (background filling) and isen motif (motif
filling) which are so fine and intricate, are part of the special
character of Danar Hadi`s batik, beside the various creation of its
motifs as the result of its capability in combining court batiks, so
that court batiks made by Danar Hadi are always different than court
batiks known before.
The processes applied always cover all kinds of batik processes.
The Video of the making of Batik: