Ikat Batik To Keep Bali's Masterpiece Heritage

Batik is a cloth that traditionally uses as manual wax-resist dyeing technique. Javanese traditional batik, especially from Yogyakarta and Surakarta, has notable meanings rooted to the Javanese conceptualization of the universe. Traditional colours include indigo, dark brown, and white, which represent the three major Hindu Gods (Brahmā, Visnu, and Śiva). This is related to the fact that natural dyes are most commonly available in indigo and brown.


Batik as an Indonesian heritage masterpiece has been claimed by Malaysian in a few years ago but then The UNESCO designated Indonesian batik as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on October 2, 2009. As part of the acknowledgment, UNESCO insisted that Indonesia preserve their heritage.



In Bali, batik has been made and worn by the Balinese since long time ago up to this day. But not to many traditional batik fabrics can be found in Bali right now, mostly of the batik fabrics in Bali and Indonesia are powered by the machine technologies only a few of them stil doing manual batik printing. Ikat Batik in Bali is one of the few company that manufacturing batik manually from cotton to a finish product.


This process take sometimes that is why this company can not afford for a wholesale right now. Ranging from own cotton yarn spun (hand spun), own weaving (hand woven) Own motifs and design (hand Painted) to dye in own natural color made (hand dyed). Its concept and commits in natural products, traditional with contempo-modern design, ecological, sustainable and environtment friendly.


In man power concept, Ikat Batik is helping existing weavers villages to be productive and to boost up our traditional heritage. 

They put a side small percentage from the sales benefit for funding the color of plants planting program. Now for the color of plants such as Indigo and Noni (pace) they have about 200 hectares of land in Nusa Penida managed by local communities so that open a job field for them. And it has an offered from the government of Sumbawa for planting color plants on the government-owned land.


To check the production process if you are in Bali, you may come to the manufacturing workshop at Pejeng village, Gianyar. Right now they are making wall hanging batik, scarf, slash, and table cloth. The next features will be fashion products, home interior, cushion, etc. Visit here for more information about Ikat Batik.