The old European/Javanese-style building better known as Dalem Wuryaningratan stands out on Jl. Slamet Riyadi in Surakarta. The house was named after its first owner, Pangeran Haryo Wuryaningrat, who ...

JAKARTA -- If I had to choose a favorite textile, and a favorite place to admire its infinite forms, it would be Indonesia's traditional batik in Thamrin City, a windowless multilevel market in the ...

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“Indonesian Batik: A Living Heritage”, a batik show currently going on at the National Gallery in Indonesia's capital of Jakarta, is providing an insight into the country's batik history. The ...

Solo, Indonesia – Gunawan Setiawan is the fourth generation of batik makers and sellers in his family, and hails from the historic royal city of Surakarta, or Solo, in Central Java which is also known ...

SINGAPORE – The Peranakan Museum’s latest exhibition, which presents about 200 heirloom batik textiles and accompanying objects such as accessories, zooms in on three Chinese Peranakan women from the ...

Visual artist Haris Rashid did not set out to inherit a family tradition when he first picked up batik. But what began as a creative experiment soon uncovered a legacy stretching back generations.

The age-old traditional technique of creating art with layers of hot wax and coloured dyes has come back into the limelight in the recent years, becoming more popular than it ever was. Commonly known ...

From Solo and Pekalongan in Central Java, Yogyakarta to the northern Java coast and other batik-producing regions in the country, two batik maestros have invented what is known today as Indonesian ...