Some of the world's finest textiles are made in Indonesia, the great archipelago that embraces thousands of islands between Sumatra and New Guinea. Prized as items of trade and inheritance, fabrics are often displayed or exchanged during such rites of passage as coming of age and marriage. Textiles are also symbols of prestige, and in the past the most exquisite designs were used only by the highest ranks of society. Indonesia is justly famed for its textiles decorated with batik and ikat, but there are many other fascinating fabric traditions, such as supplementary weft, which has only recently begun to be fully appreciated in the West. The author focuses on these techniques and other decorative methods such as embroidery, couching, applique and gilding. He also shows how the skills of weavers and dyers are acquired and developed. The decline of royal patronage and the growth of mass tourism has had a considerable impact on textile making in the last 20 years, but the author examines the survival of traditional designs and significant colours and explains why they have retained their importance for the people of Indonesia. Formerly an Assistant Keeper at the Horniman Museum, London, Michael Hitchcock is now a Lecturer at the Centre for South-East Asian Studies at the University of Hull. He is the author of INDONESIAN TEXTILE TECHNIQUES and a contributor to ETHNIC JEWELLERY. With 100 colour and 50 black and white illustrations.

Indonesian Textiles

Arts & Photography

Hitchcock, Michael

History & Criticism

Basic Books

Indonesian Textile Techniques (Shire Ethnography, 1)

Decorative Arts & Design

Shire Pubns

Islam and Identity in Eastern Indonesia

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Hull Univ Pr

The word 'batik' is possibly of Malay origin from the word 'tik' meaning 'to drip' or 'to drop.' The term is applied to a resist dye technique invented independently in locations as diverse as Ancient Egypt, Japan and Turkestan. Batik is a remarkably flexible textile technique and is suited to small-scale methods of production, but demand from the fashion and tourism industries is increasing. This volume brings together the experiences and concerns of the international community of batik producers. It gives voice to their suggestions for ensuring that the producers of this traditional craft are integrated into its increasingly global production rather than excluded from it. Building on the work of batik designers and producers the book discusses the emergence of a global craft consciousness. Batik producers report on innovative measures taken both individually and collectively to hold their market position while commercial producers frequently annex and mass-produce traditional batik design. The book concludes with a discussion of marketing and production innovations and tourism which enable the producers of batik to maintain the integrity of their designs whilst harnessing the benefits of new commercial forms.

Building on Batik: The Globalization of a Craft Community (Voices in Development Management)

Business & Money

Nuryanti, Wiendu

Industries

Routledge

This beautiful book contains a photographic record of the work of Walter Spies, a German artist, and Beryl de Zoete, a British writer and dance critic, co-authors of the classic Dance and Drama in Bali (1938). These photographs, many previously unpublished, are chosen from the Horniman Museum Library collection to vividly evoke rural life in Bali, with its dance-drama traditions, and challenge the more lurid aspects of Bali's image in the 1930s.

Bali: The Imaginary Museum: The Photographs of Walter Spies and Beryl de Zoete

Norris, Lucy i L.

Oxford University Press

Grand Batik Interiors

Humor & Entertainment

Ave, Joop

Wuryanti, Wiendu

Damais, Soedarmadji J.H.

Pop Culture

BAB Publishing Indonesia

Traditional and modern Indonesian crafts are a little-known, yet vitally important facet of Indonesian life. Indonesian Arts and Crafts provides an overview of these crafts, and also examines the many ways that Indonesian craftspeople and designers are working together to create, through design, crafts of the highest international standards.

Indonesian Arts and Crafts

Jay Ph.D., Sian E.

Gustami, SP

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