Traditional Javanese Batik

Traditional Javanese Batik - Small Tablecloth

A lovely square batik with a central circle. This would make a lovely tablecloth.

This piece incorporates many different traditional design elements such as the diagonal "parang barong" along the edges, kawung and eagles wings.

Colours: Black, ivory, chestnut brown and indigo blue.

Size: 1 metre square

Javanese Print - Jogya style

A screen printed pure cotton cloth with a traditional batik design of "parang" diagonals framing floral diamonds.

A white background which is distinctive of the Sultanate of Jogyakarta with chestnut browns, deep indigo blue and black.

Size:  1m x  2..30 m

Javanese Print - Floral Design

A screen printed cotton fabric with a traditional batik design.  Flowers and leaves, butterflies, stands of bamboo, and an infill of dense "ukel" hook designs.

This lovely design is in cafe au lait brown, cream and black.

 Size: Approx 1 m x 2.40 m

Javanese Print - Floral Diagonal

A screen printed pure cotton fabric with a traditional batik design. The diagonal "parang" is a very traditional and well loved design and on this piece is puctuated with flower heads

This lovely design is in brown, cream and black.

 Size: 1 m x 2.40 m

Javanese Print - Traditional motifs

A wonderful screen printed cloth with a batik design featuring a background of  fine swirls and tiny hooks ("ukel") and many motifs familiar to Javanese batiks. Beautiful crisp cotton

Colours: Chocolate brown, creamy brown and black.

Size: 1 m x 2.20 m

Javanese Print - Truntum Stars

This screen printed pure cotton cloth has the traditional Central Javanese batik design called "truntum" and shows "all the stars in heaven". It is often worn at weddings as it signifies undying love.

The colours are creamy yellow, and chestnut brown on a black background.

Size: 1 m x 2.40 m

Javanese Print - Parang design

A very traditional design - one of the diagonal "parang" designs. This one is "Parang klitik" or small blade. This is a screen printed batik design

Colours chocolate brown, pale cream and deep dark blue.

Size 1 m x 2.20 m

Javanese Batik from Jogyakarta

A typical design from the Central Javanese Sultanate of Jogyakarta with its distinctive white background.

This design is one of the dozens of "parang" - knife designs. This cloth has been made using a technique called "combinasi" - a combination of both batik and screenprinting.

Colours: Chestnut brown and deep indigo blue on an ivory white background

Size: I m x 2.30 m

Javanese Tjap Batik - Sarong

A wonderful and unusual sarong which is made to wear sewn into a round tube.

The sarong has a design of diamonds with a large panel of  flowers with triangles (called the "tumpal") along both edges. This is a genuine tjap batik 

Colours cream, chestnut brown and deep dark indigo blue

Width 1m Length 1.70 m (shorter than the other cloths as is usual with a sarung)

Javanese Tjap Batik - Wedding Wishes

A very popular design with diamond shapes enclosing motifs of little rice spirit houses, birds wings, butterflies,and sacred mountains. Very suitable for wearing to a wedding as it signifies wishes for a long, happy and prosperous life 

Colours: Creamy honey brown and black on a creamy mottled background.

Size: 1 m x 2.40 m.

Javanese Tjap Batik - Falling Rain

This traditional diagonal design is called "udan liris" which means "light rain". There are several well known batik designs within it. This is a genuine hand made tjap batik made in the batik district of the Central Javanese Sultanate of Surakarta

The colours are a warm honey golden brown with brown and dark blue and black.

Size: 1 m x 2.25 m