DESCRIPTION:
Wood Batik, An original masterpiece of Indonesia.

If Batik is common painted on fabric, but Krebet Village, Bantul Yogyakarta is uniquely use wood to put their paintings on.
Krebet Village is located at Sendangsari Village, Pajangan subdistrict, regency of Bantul, Yogyakarta. Its geographic location is on Selarong Hill at the north of Pajangan Subdistrict and borders on Guworsari Village, Triwidadi and Bangunjiwo. This village is often said as Tourism Village because of its unique culture that develops Batik wooden handicraft.
First creator of wood Batik in Krebet is Mr Gunjiar in 1970s as a craft man in Krebet village, he casually painted Batik on his sclapture, but who knows now his masterpiece become great masterpiece.
The wood as media they use is Sengon wood or in latin we can say (Albizia) and pule woods (Alstonia sp), because they can find those species easily in their territority and also they have soft textured as well as having straight fibre which are suitable to paint Batik patterns on.
The process of making wood Batik takes long time enough, for instance to make a mask takes about three days, besides that they also produce another unique wooden batik crafts such as wooden mask, any kind of puppets neither 2 nor 3 dimensions, wooden animal statue miniature, mirrors, place for Al-Quran, bracelets, frames, calendar, keychain and so on, all of those merchandises used wood as medium.

The Steps are;
the woods are cut into several pieces of woods depends on size required, then carve it according to what we want, and sandpaper it until the body of craft is smooth after that draw the patterns of batik by pencil or markers.
Painting Batik on the woods actually has the same principle as painting on the fabric, but they use particular chemical dyes.

Here are some steps of painting Batik;
1.prepare canting, malam (candle of batik), batik stove and pan.
2.Heat the candle on the pan until it's melted, the flame of stove is not too burning neither too small , in order only to keep the flame on, the heat must be stable,
3. after that Paint the patterns with candle which has been melted.
4. Prepare batik colour with using "indigosol", paint "indigosol" to the wood, and then give HCL with small brush for painting. After that, dry it.
5. If it has dried, give the color to the part that we want to paint
6. after that cover the color we have painted with the candle.
5. Dip the object into a bucket of dye as process of coloration
6. Boiling the object to assert the color.
7. Dry it again.
8. Finishing varnis the object.

Those are the explanation of process of making wood batik based on our observation.

Created:
-Melinda Kurniati (13/345218/SA/16841)
-Mahda Alamia (13/345219/SA/16842)
-Yossie Redha A. (15478)