PEKALONGAN BATIK WEEK 2016
October 4-9, 2016. There was an event that held to celebrate National Batik Day in Pekalongan it was Pekalongan Batik week. In this event we found batik exhibition from several cities in Indonesia, culinary festival, batik costume carnaval, art performance, seminar, and many more. Here I would share few things that I found in the event. Batik Tulis from Cirebon that use natural color. They used some plants to produce the color like Indigofera for the blue color, Secang for red color, etc. This was batik Pekalongan which has colorful color and "Motif Buketan" in characteristic. Someone show up there, she was not the seller btw haha she's my friend, Kharisma, the Pekalongan Tourism Ambassador 2014. Serat Pisang Shirt (two from the front) was kind of cloth that use banana fiber for the main material. Could you imagine how they made it? i've no idea tho, how creative they were. This Serat Pisang Shirt was made by Ridaka handicraft and w...