Our next destination after the UC Silver was Sari Amerta Batik Collection which is located at Batubulan village, Gianyar. Resen told us that we can see how the batik being done here.
The open workshop is set up roughly in front of their gallery. There were a few ladies working at the area, where they working on a white cloth.
Unfortunately for us, the artist or worker whom in charged of the colouring was absent, thus were unable to see how is the full process of the batik.
We just managed to see how the ladies making designs on the white material, either copying the original designs or directly without copying and draw on it.
After which, covering designs with wax or klowong on both sides of the white material. Then, they would filling designs with ornaments and small dots.
Covering some special part of the designs to get the second colour which is called Sawuk. Tembokan is covering some special part of the design to get third colour.
After which they would dye for the first colour.
Later the artists would scrapping some parts of the wax to get second colour by using a king of knife (cawuk). Omitting all the wax by putting the material in boiling water so that are two colour, blue and white.
Then, some parts of the designs where are dots to them. After fifth processing, they would usually put dot on the lines of the designs to make them nicer.
As for the second colour, they can dye many times if the artists want some more colour. Then, again to omitting all the wax by putting the material in boiling water again.
Finally washing if the material is clean then would dry under the shade. The batik traditional colour are usually blue, brown and light yellow. It is to be live symbol.
As for the stamp processing, the artists can directly do without making designs in advance, as every stamp has its own pre-made designs already.
Personally, I was amazed by the artists as they can just draw freely on the white cloth with the designated ‘wax pen’.
I saw a man drawing the painting or There are a weaving machine and sewing machine too. He looks so fast and professional in what he is doing!
Sari Amerta Batik is one of the famous gallery selling batik products, ranging from wall hangings to table clothes to men, ladies, and children clothing. Prices and quality range from one extreme to another.
The ground floor mainly selling all kinds of clothing which are men, women and children.
Other than that, there are some other table linen or table placemats which are in batik designs. It is nice too. Some note books with batik cover, and some photo albums with the batik design frames too, hand fans, and a lot of souvenirs too.
We bought 2 hand fans only, as we did not intend to buy any. At the 1st floor, is all the batik painting displayed. We saw a lot of beautiful paintings and of coarse the price also very expensive!
There were very few photos taken as we were not allowed to take photos in the gallery. The photos at the 1st floor I was taking secretly as the paintings are so beautiful.
Sari Amerta Batik Collection is a great way to see a wide range of Batik product, and also how it is made.
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