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Canting is a tool for small and consists of stem / stalk of bamboo, nyamplungan / canting body (a place for liquid wax) and Carat / beak (place candles out of time to make) made of copper. Canting this pattern is used to write Batik with wax liquid (malam). According to its function have canting reng-rengan (to make first reng – rengan batikan with or without patterns) and the canting isen (to fill the field). According to the front line of a small front line is small, medium and large. According to many front line have canting cecekan / one bill, canting loron / two front line, canting telon / beak three, canting Prapatan / four front line, canting liman / five front line, canting byok / seven front line or more and canting renteng / galaran (have even front line and arranged from top to bottom).
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There are few things that need your attention to the clothing or batik cloth, you still beautiful, are as follows:

• When wash it, use special soap for washing the batik cloth sold in the market. Or, batik cloth, wash hair with shampoo. Previously, larutkan shampoo in the water until no part of the set. Then, celupkan batik cloth.
• Wash batik can also use the fruit or the leaves of plants lerak that have been muted dilem warm water. How, remas-remas fruit lerak or leaves dilem until the yeast and add adequate water, and ready to wash batik. Fruit aroma lerak able to prevent the emergence of small animals that can damage fabrics.
• When washing batik, do not use detergent and rubbed.  If batik is not too dirty, quite warm in water.  But if really dirty, for example, affected the food stain, can be removed with soap bath or orange peel. How, with enough mengusapkan bath soap or orange in the skin that was dirty.
• Recommend, Batik do not wash with washing machines.
• When dry batiks, the wet is not considered necessary. Dry not under the direct sunlight. Dry it in the shade or wind them up to dry.
• When dry, drag the edge of batik slowly to the fiber terlipat to return to its original position.
  If you have dried, smooth batik avoid directly. If batik appear distraught, spray little water on the batik cloth and place the piece of cloth on top of the base, a new iron.
• If you want to give parfume or fabric softener on the handmade batik, do not spray directly on the lower garment. Should, cover it with handmade batik newspaper, and spray liquids parfume and fabric softener was in the newspaper.
• Do not spray perfume directly to the batik cloth, especially silk batik with natural pigments.
  Save your batik in the plastic so that no moth-eaten. When stored in a cupboard not given camphor, because this is very solid and hard can damage the batik.
• Another way to batik, not moth-eaten, give a little pepper wrapped in tissue storage locker batik. Or, place the root of fragrant already twice through the process of immersion in hot water and dried up to dry.

Batik (Batik or words) comes from the Java language “amba”, which means that the writing and the “titik” which means dot. The word refers to the batik cloth with a pattern generated by the material “malam” (wax) is applied to the top of the cloth, so that the entry of coloring material (dye), in English or in the “wax-resist dyeing.”

Batik is a craft that has high artistic value and have become part of the culture of Indonesia (especially Java) since long. Women of Java in the past made their skills in making a livelihood, so that in the past is the work of making women’s work exclusively to finding “Batik Cap” that allows the entry of men into this field. There are some exceptions to this phenomenon, namely batik, which has a coastal line of masculine as can be seen in the pattern “Mega A”, where in some coastal areas are making work for the common folk of men.
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Kapanlagi.com – Artists getting Nirina Zubir contrived impressed upon the skills to promote the batik cloth in the Canting.

“It is not making skills, easy and takes time to be able to do so well,” gumamnya when found in the ‘Omah Batik’ Nebu Sauyun, (23 / 5), South Jakarta.

From there, Nirina admitted to appreciate more batik. Nirina also praise the creator and batik creations in the period speaking month. Nirina admiration in batik frequently Pair him with the current fashion trends.

“If I wear batik in each event, she paduin with denim pants, though matching. Aapalagi many awesome party just now that use batik, it is also okay,” According.

And in fact, not only recently put it Nirina like batik, even from his first love, and often wearing clothes with a modern dipadupadankan. Let not bored, why. Moreover, if he attended arts events from the embassy.
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The other, I expected to visit at once heir Pekalongan batik. So I said my intention to examine the possibility of strengthening the protection of the batik them with the Copyright, cash flow concerns.

Dozens of years ago, a number of  Pekalongan batik artist invited to Malaysia to demonstrate making batik proces. With a clean heart and pride to the naive they thought, they meet the invitation. However, the Malaysian students who are not only smart, but also astute.

So to understand the specifics of making and the enrichment of Pekalongan batik idiom, they create a pattern design with a distinctive Floral motifs and colors that are similar with Pekalongan batik. Results “creative” and that it is registered as their Intellectual Property Rights.
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