Lasem by AGATO

When I was in junior high school, I took an extra curricular subject 'mbatik' - traditional painting on fabric using a manual wax.  This subject is very difficult since I don't have patience! exactly, patience and intenseness.  That is why  I do really appreciate when I see a beautiful or gorgeous batik with the price of  million million rupiahs! I can imagine how this artist was painting on this fabric!

I am very lucky that I got the opportunity to see the biggest exhibitions while I was in my country : Batik world summit and Ina Craft.  I see a lot of batiks from different villages, city in my country from the cheapest price to the expensive one.  They are really really amazing, not just amazing .. I can say it's the Best of the Best. I  can spend my whole day on the exhibitions and if my husband is not coming with me, the result made him cranky since I was busy checking out the batik and I forget to text him!  Aha!

However,  batik is making me like a little child who is fallen in love with a lollipop on the first sight!! Yup .. I can cry for it if I can't get it! hahahaha.  I just love Batik so much!! I don't even know how to discribe it.  I wear batik almost every day on daily basis if I was in Indonesia.  Well .. the weather is pretty hot and batik material that I had is very nice cold,  so relaxing.  I don't care if you see me on my FB pictures,  I wear the same dress all the time.   Wong jowo bilang: paten lo!!! hahahahah

I learn a lot about batiks while I was in my country for these 10 months.

I was very lucky I guess.  One of my fave batiks is batik Lasem as I shown you in this pic.  The color is very eye catching as well as the painting on it.

You can bring me whatever batiks to me and I can tell you what kind of batik it's  from the color, aha!

My Old fave one is batik Sogan from Solo, the second one is batik Madura - the place that I belongs, the 3rd row will be Lasem and the last one from Ndiwek, Jombang that I can't afford it as it's too expensive to sell it!

I am very particular choosing my batiks. I don't like to buy whatever batiks and make whatever design.  I have to touch the batiks and  see the picture on it so I can imagine in my head this batik is good for whatever design I had. I see batik is already very beautiful on its own, so I don't need to add more on top of it. I just need a very simple design for it and Voila!

That is why it's not easy to find a batik, especially if I have to ask someone to shop for me. Basically, she has to know me better first before jumping to that, hahahaha    

People in my country usually wear batik on special occasion but now it's start to wear it every Friday at the office. Basically, now batik is more modern than previous years ago which is good since it's nice and beautiful if you know how to find the good one that suit your style.

to be continue .....