Vintage Javanese Batik

Vintage Javanese Batik - Garuda Eagle design

\a lovely worn cloth with a design of  dense "ukel" hooks in the background and graceful flowers and tendrils, intersperced with a full "Garuda" eagle motif. The huge mythical bird Garuds, has great significance in Javanese philosophy.

Very pale yellow with black and touches of indigo 

Vintage Javanese Wedding wishes design

A wonderful old and worn batik cloth which has been dyed using natural dyes. 60 - 70 years old

The design is called "sido mukti" and reflects a wish for a happy and prosperous life - therefore this is a batik design often worn by guests at a Javanese wedding or other family ceremony.

Soft palest yellow with deep indigo blue and black

Vintage Javanese Batik Eagle and stars Design

A beautiful vintage batik cloth from Java. A very well known design combining "Truntum" stars (meaning to guide or advise) and the powerful Garuda eagle's wing motif.

A cloth like this would be worn by an older relative at a family occasion - especially a wedding.

Cream, caramel brown and deep indigo blue

Vintage Javanese Batik Flowered Diamond Design

A beautiful genuine vintage Javanese batik cloth. 

This cloth has been used and is in a lovely washed, soft but  good condition. Natural dyes - soga browns and indigo.

Colours: Pale beigey cream, black and accents of indigo blue

Vintage Javanese Batik Sacred Mountain Design

A genuine vintage Javanese batik cloth with a powerful design featuring birds and the sacred mountain or tribuwono.

Good condition

Colours: Deep coffee, deep indigo blue, black

Vintage Javanese Batik Flower Petal Design

A genuine vintage Javanese batik. A design of flower petals suitable for a young unmarried woman. Lovely natural dyes.

Palest honey brown, cream and black with some touches of indigo

Vintage Javanese Batik Sido Mukti Design

A genuine vintage second hand batik sarong cloth from Java. A very popular design called "sido mukti" wishing health and happiness and specially worn at life events such as baby namings and weddings.

As this is a well used piece there may be some wear and tear.

Vintage Javanese Batik Parang and Chick Design

A genuine vintage second hand batik sarong cloth from Java. A batik which incorporates many different design elements, including rice stalks and a hatching chick signifying fertility and the well know diagonal design "parang".

As this is a well used piece there may be some wear and tear.

Colours: Pale yellow, cream with very deep blue and black

Vintage Javanese Batik Kawung design

A very traditional design in Java, kawung signifies the whole of the earthly realm, the four corners of the globe, east west, north, south.

It was once one of the "proscribed" designs which only members of the Sultan's immediate family could wear.

It is one of favourite designs.

Vintage Javanese Floral Sarung

A lovely vintage batik sarong in pale blues and a very pretty pale apple green with floral designs. Made in Pekalongan on the north coast of Java. This piece is sewn into a tube as it would have been worn as a wrap sarong. The blue panel is worn at the front.

Very fine and smooth cotton. Worn but in very good codition

Size approx 1.16  x 1.90 m (sewn into a tube, but could be opened along the seam)