Showing posts with label Art and Home Industry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art and Home Industry. Show all posts

Ceramics

Posted by Lambang Insiwarifianto 6/28/07 0 komentar
Kasongan is famous village whose produces ceramics or craft work made by clay.
Kasongan is about 7 kilometers from Yogyakarta

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Wood, Ratan and Bamboo Craft

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Wood, rattan and bamboo crafts product can found along Malioboro street shops.
In Yogyakarta there are so many artists who can create wood, bamboo and rattan to be art craft as like lampshade, fruit basket, bags.
You can also found dry leaves crafted for photo albums, sandals, bags etc

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Kuningan (brassware)

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Kuningan (brassware) also can found at Kota Gede. People in Kotagede have been familiar with this metal work for a long time.
Traditional brass products like smoker set, cake moulds, ceiling lamp, brass bowls, bells, vases and other product

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Silver

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Silver handicraft was a distinctive feature of Kota Gede, located about 6 kilometers from the city center Yogyakarta. beside the Royal Cemetery of Panembahan Senopati.
This small and historical old city is well known as silver town

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Batik

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Batik is unique form of Indonesia art, a combination of artistic expression and technical skill.
Using beeswax, paraffin and multi colors paint, batik is done on pieces of clothing.
The quality of Batik is determined by the intricacy of motif, the technique used and the kind basic cloths.

Originally, both color and the motif were very much influenced by the surrounding nature, belief, plants, animal etc
Batik has been both an art and a craft for centuries. In Java, Indonesia, batik is part of an ancient tradition, and some of the finest batik cloth in the world is still made there.

Contemporary batik, while owing much to the past, is markedly different from the more traditional and formal styles. For example, the artist may use etching, discharge dyeing, stencils, different tools for waxing and dyeing, wax recipes with different resist values and work with silk, cotton, wool, leather, paper or even wood and ceramics.

Batik is historically the most expressive and subtle of the resist methods. The ever widening range of techniques available offers the artist the opportunity to explore a unique process in a flexible and exciting way

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