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lokal culture of indonesian Art staining fabric with stain barrier techniques using night is one of the ancient art form . The discovery in Egypt showed that this technique has been known since the 4th century BC , with the discovery mummy wrapping cloth which is also coated the night to form a pattern . In Asia , a similar technique of batik is also applied in China during the T'ang Dynasty ( 618-907 ) as well as in India and Japan during the Nara Period ( 645-794 ) . In Africa , such as batik technique known by the Yoruba tribe in Nigeria , Soninke and Wolof tribe as well as in Senegal . [ 2 ] . In Indonesia , batik is believed to have existed since the time of Majapahit , and became very popular late eighteenth century or early nineteenth century . Produced batik batik is it all until the early twentieth century and the new batik known after World War I or around the 1920's . [ 3 ] Although the word " batik " is derived from the Javanese , the presence of batik in Java itself is not recorded . G.P. Rouffaer found batik technique is likely introduced from India or Sri Lanka in the 6th century or the 7th . [ 2 ] On the other hand , J.L.A. Brandes ( Dutch archaeologist ) and F.A. Sutjipto ( Indonesian historians ) believe that the tradition of batik is a native of the area such as Toraja , Flores , Halmahera , and Papua . It should be noted that the area is not an area that is influenced by Hinduism but known to the ancient tradition of batik making . [ 4 ] G.P. Rouffaer gringsing also reported that the pattern has been known since the 12th century in Kediri , East Java . He concluded that this pattern can only be formed by using a canting , so he argues that the canting is found in Java in the period surrounding it . [ 4 ] Detailed carvings that resemble the patterns of batik cloth worn by Prajnaparamita , the statue of the Buddhist goddess of wisdom from East Java century -13 . Detailed clothing featuring vines pattern and intricate flowers that are similar to traditional Javanese batik patterns that can be found today . This suggests that making intricate batik patterns that can only be made ​​with a canting has been known in Java since the 13th century or even earlier . Legend in Malay literature of the 17th century , Sulalatus Salatin tells Admiral Hang Nadim ordered by Sultan Mahmud to sail to India to get 140 pieces of fabric litter with 40 kinds of flower patterns on each page . Being unable to fulfill the order, he made ​​himself the fabrics . But unfortunately shipwrecked on the way home and only capable of carrying four pieces that make the Emperor disappointed . [ 5 ] By some commentators , who ? litter was interpreted as batik . In European literature , batik technique was first described in the book History of Java ( London , 1817 ) writings of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles . He had been a British governor of Java during Napoleon occupied the Netherlands . In 1873 a Dutch merchant Van Rijekevorsel gave a piece of batik obtained during a visit to Indonesia to the Ethnic Museum in Rotterdam and at the beginning of the 19th century that began batik reached its golden period . When exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900 , Indonesian batik riveting public and artists . [ 2 ] Since the industrialization and globalization , which introduces automation techniques , new types emerged batik , known as batik cap and batik prints , while traditional batik produced by the technique of handwriting using canting and night is called batik . Hugh Clifford recording industry in 1895 to produce the Week batik , rainbow fabric , and the fabric telepok

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