Part 1 : Batik Bangkalan
Madura is an island that connected by Suramadu bridge from Surabaya, the capital city of East Java province, Indonesia. Bangkalan is the first city of Madura island after we crossing along Suramadu bridge.
Madura batik characteristic has a bright and varied colors such as red, yellow, green, and blue.
These colors are produced from natural dyes such as natural Soga from mengkudu 'noni' and steeper for the red color.
Tarum leaves for blue colour, bark mundu plus alum for the green color effect.
Bright and dark colors produced through the length of the fabric soaking for 1 to 3 months, even reaching 1 year. This soaking process will make batik color fabric more durable than usual.
Bangkalan batik motifs over a thousand species. Its motif's name related to pictures and colours that is interpreted to the local language.
The names of these motifs are: ramo, ramo banjo, rongterong, perkaper, rawan, serat kayu, panca warna, and so on.
Bangkalan batik is worked for 1 week and sold at a price IDR 50,000.00 - 75.000, 00 (equal to USD 5 - 7.5) .
While Bangkalan batik made from silk done for 1 to 2 months and sold for IDR 500,000.00 - 1,000,000, 00 (equal to USD 50 - 100).
In Bangkalan Batik Village, we can find batik shop that give visitor opportunity to try make batik by their own hand with free of charge if we buy some batik cloth from this shop.
However, the most expensive and famous Bangkalan batik named batik gentongan.
Batik gentongan is a unique batik from Tanjungbumi, Bangkalan Madura. The characteristics of this batik is very bright and varied colors and subtle workmanship. Mostly have a motive : Sik Melaya, Bunga kapok, ola-ola, Burung hong, Panji susi, and so on. One piece of batik gentongan cloth is worked for 1 year. The batik gentongan cloth was soaked in barrel named gentongan for 6 months and then after drawn, batik cloth will be soaked again for 3 to 4 months. Price of a piece batik gentongan cloth can reach up to IDR 3.500.000,00 (equal to USD 350). The price depends on the level of difficulty and the length of the design process. Currently batik gentongan is the most batik cloth that is demanding by the batik collectors.
Nearest Point of Interest :
Surabaya, Capital City of East Java Province, Indonesia
Juanda International Airport, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia
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