It’s so called life

Despite the world stock market crashed and off course its huge effect with my so little stocks ( may God save them all, so that I don’t get so poor), I managed to enjoy myself learning to practice batik making in “Museum Nasional” on Sunday.  A passionate woman called ibu Indra Tj organized this workshop for people who interested to see the process of “batik tulis”.

The workshop began with the presentation from Ibu Indra about batik in general; what kind of, how to make it and the philosophy behind it.  After that we were divided into 7-8 group, each had 5-6 people sitting in circle with a kind of stove made from used big tin placed in the middle.  The stove was to melt the so called “malam” ; it’s actually a mixing of bee wax and paraffin.  So, “malam” is applied to the cloth before being dipped in dye by using “canting needle”. 

It looked so easy cause you simply apply “malam” by following the pattern, however this was the most difficult part for me.  It took my greatest patience to actually finish it, eventhough it then did not come up so great.  I could see this from the face of the guy who taught us.  He was like so amazed  how my batik became.  I knew that he felt sorry for how so untalented I was.  Yet, I myself felt satisfied cause I was finally able to “mbatik”

The workshop ended after they showed us the dyeing process, and since we could not really do the final part there, they would send it to us by posts after the dye it for us. 

This was really a good get away to forget about the craziness out there.

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