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Mid Century batiks, Jogjakarta-Surakarta region; Group 4 | |
Patterned motifs: some of the earliest; some from Islamic art, some by way of colonial Dutch tiles. Click on thumbnail for full size images. Click on large image to return here. | |
| These large (2m.5 x 1.2m approx.) cotton batik sarong are (mostly men's) attire of occasion, of ceremony, of status, or even of magical protective power. Dyes used -principally indigo and soga (brown), occasionally vegetal tannin for yellow tones. Soga fades faster than indigo, to a mouse grey. | |
