New and Contemporary Batik

Hand drawn batik picture Rama and Sita

Rama and Sita the heroes of The Ramayana story. A traditional batik from a small studio in Jogyakarta in Central Java. Size approx 16" x 17"

As these pictures are all hand made and unique design or colour may vary slightly.

Hand drawn batik picture - Semar

Semar the Javanese father figure. Traditional batik picture of Java's famous shadow puppet

A hand made batik picture from a small studio in Jogyakarta in Central Java.

Size approx 16" x 17"

As these pictures are all hand made and unique, design or colour may vary slightly.

Hand drawn batik picture Rama and Garuda

A traditional Javanese scene from the Ramayana shadow puppet show.

Hand drawn batik picture

Approx 16 x 17 inches

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

Batik Screen-print - Parang

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

Batik screen-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: Rich chestnut brown, creamy brown and black.

Size: 1 m x 2.20 m

Javanese Batik - Sarong

This is a genuine hand stamped "cap batik" 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. 

Colours cream, chestnut brown and deep dark indigo blue

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

Indonesia map sampler

A hand drawn sampler cloth from Central Java featuring a map of the country of Indonesia, surrounded by typical Javanese batik designs.

Colours: Indigo blue,black, mid brown, ivory

Size: 104 x 175 cms

Design sampler

A hand drawn design sample cloth from Pekalongan featuring 28 named designs. The cloth is designed to hang vertically and has a sleeve at each end for hanging it easily.

Colours: black background, khaki brown and white

Size: 1.02 x 1.77 m

Sumatran Folk Batik

A deep red thick cotton cloth with hand drawn motifs and "Arabic writing" imitations. Probably made by a village woman for herself or her husband to wear to the mosque.

Burgundy red and pale sand colours.

Size: 88 x 2.3 m

"Pelangi" tie dyed cloth

Bought in a village near Jogyakarta from a women's co-operative making tie dyed and stitch resist cloths. 

"Pelangi" means rainbow in Indonesian and this is another traditonal textile technique made in some parts of Java

Very deep dark brown background with white, green and red rossettes formed by tying the cloth very tightly before dyeing.

Size: 1.12 x 2.2 m

Hand drawn indigo batik shoulder cloth

A wonderful piece of hand drawn "batik tulis" made by the women of the Bima Sakti batik co-operative in Giriloyo village. The women of this village have been making batik for the courts of Jogyakarta in Central Java for many generations.

Their work is all done by hand and uses plant indigo dye only.

Colours: natural plant indigo and white

Size: 52 cms x 2.10 metres

Abstract whole cloth

Made in the old part of Jogyakarta called Taman Sari where many young batik artists live. The young people there have  started to make interesting and  vibrant versions of their grandmother's and mother's traditional craft of batik. This type of batik is mostly made for individual fashion designers.

This is a wonderful  free flowing and long abstract batik cloth which would make a stunning garment or wall covering.

Size: Approx 1.15 x 2.50m

Hand drawn Indigo from Tuban

A wonderful hand drawn batik "slendang" or shoulder cloth from the village of Kerek in northern Java - one of the few places left where batik is still made on handwoven cotton. The cotton and the indigo dye plants are grown around the village and the wax is made from local bees.

A few of the older village women still spin, weave, dye and batik the cotton to produce amazing pieces of folk textile art like this. A piece like this is made to wear or carry goods. Strong hardwearing cotton with a design of cotton flowers with decorative borders.

Size: 2 metres x 45 cms (including fringe)

Indigo batik from Bali

All hand drawn batik . A stunning blue and white slendang (scarf) dyed with natural indigo, from a batik workshop on the island of Bali.

White, pale blue and dark blue. 

A mix of floral borders with a central diamond of geometric designs.

Size: 50 cms x 1.88 m

Hand drawn Indigo Flora of Java

A wonderful hand drawn batik from the village of Giriloyo with beautiful designs of big frangipani flowers. The batik was made at the Bima Sakti batik co-operative where the women share their work and profits to make wonderful batik. Many of them make batik for the Sultan of Jogyakarta's Court.

Condition: new.

Dye - natural plant indigo

Size approx: 1.07 x 2.5m

Indigo Sample cloth

A wonderful example of a design sampler featuring 24 named designs.

This new cloth has been completely hand waxed and dyed by the women of the Bima Sakti women's batik co-operative in Giriloyo village. The women of this village have a long tradition of making batik for the Sultan of Jogyakarta.

Size 1.02 x 2.40 cms with 24 designs of 30 x 33 cms.

Giriloyo Sample Cloth

This cloth was batiked in the village of Giriloyo by the women of the Bima Sakti Women's Batik Co-operative. Bu Hartinah and her neighbours come from a line of women with a long tradition of making batik cloths for the Sultan of Jogyakarta and the royal court. Their village out in the rice fields beyond the city, lies just beneath the sacred mountain of Imogiri where the Sultans of Central Java have their tombs.

The cloth is a "sempel tretes" sampler cloth and shows 24 different and named designs. The batik has all been hand drawn and the designs are related to each other.

New. Size: 1.04 x 2.30 m

"Taman Arum" hand drawn batik

This hand drawn batik was bought by us about 40 years ago from the village of Trusmi where the batik of the Royal Court city of Cirebon is made. The design is called "Taman Arum" or Fragrant Garden and it depicts the Sultan's Palace gardens with rocks, foliage, royal parasols, pavillions, lions and mythical winged beasts.

The Chinese design influences in the "megamendung" pattern of the rocks can be clearly seen. Golden brown, blue and black on an ivory background

New condition. Size: 1.02 x 2.56 m

Hand drawn Silk Shawl

A beautiful made and stunning shawl in handwoven textured silk.

The hand drawn batik design shows the battle for Indonesian Independence in 1948 and is a copy of a very famous historical batik. The design features boats, horses, cars and soldiers. One end has the traditional "tumpal" design of a row of triangles.

Colours: Golden yellow, bronze and black

Size: A very generous 1.10 m x 2.20 m