Batik on wood at krebet village

Making batik on a sheet of cloth is common, but by the craftmen in krebet, small village in pajangan district, bantul,batik is developed further using  wood as the media. Krebet Wood Painting Tourism Village is located at Sendangsari Village, Pajangan subdistrict, Bantul. 

It’s about 12 km  south west of Yogyakarta City. Krebet Village society produces various kinds of unique batik handicrafts, like wooden batik mask, jewelry box, animal statue, wedding souvenirs, wall hangings, bracelets, key chains ,wooden statue as well as puppets.  They are reasonably inexpensive and varied according to the quality and complexity of the making.

The woods used for painting media is soft wood like Albizia woods, Pule woods (Alstonia sp.), and Mahogany woods. Those species are soft textured as well as having straight fibre which are suitable to paint batik patterns on and the results obtained better and more vivid color than those made from hardwood such as teak.

The process of putting batik pattern on the wood surface requires a lot more care since the pattern is made manually instead of printed like making batik on a printing block. Batik Wood is still made using traditional methods and tools so that the results obtained is very naturalistic and very unique.  Designs are made by craftsmen usually centered around a main motive of a flower.  

The designs are usually drawn on the wood using a pencil and then “Malam”, batik wax in the liquid state is used to finalise the designs where the coloured dyes would not go.  The wax is heated in a small skillet. The craftsmen at the center of this craft batik various handicrafts timber with classic batik motifs Yogyakarta palace. As motive parangrusak, parangbarong, kawung, garuda, sidomukti, sidorahayu and dozens of other motifs

Once the design has been waxed on, they are brought to the person in charge of colouring. During coloring process, the dyes and pigments should not be exposed to direct sunlight as it would cause the color to fade.

To get to the tourist village Krebet, from the center of Yogyakarta city, going through a very smooth asphalt roads, no roads damaged or perforated, the scenery on either side of the road only teak trees or forests. houses that distance apart, and each passed with a population that passed, we could say "nderek langkung" (Potential) or "nyuwun Sewu" (excuse me). There are signs when we get to the village Krebet Semar is a large statue. If you've encountered a large statue of Semar, means you've entered the village Krebet.

By passing the road continues to the south of Bantul was very smooth roads smoothly, and if you are going through just such an alternative path through Kasongan, passing Kasongan famous tourist village with pottery.

If you do not have time to visit every village tours that provide a variety of craft, then a visit to the Art Market Gabusan is the right choice. Art Market is located on the road Gabusan Parangtritis km.9, visitors can get a variety of beautiful crafts and complete, with the low prices. 

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