Proses Produksi Batik Tulis di Bhatik Sidomoelyo Desa Wisata Sidomulyo Jember

Abstract

Batik is one of the intangible cultural heritages that is the identity of the Indonesian nation. Bhatik Sidomoelyo is a batik under the auspices of Sidomulyo Tourism Village. Bhatik Sidomoelyo has two types of batik, namely hand-written batik and printed batik. The purpose of writing this Final Project is to find out how the production process of written batik in Bhatik Sidomoelyo, Sidomoelyo Tourism Village, Jember. The data used is qualitative, the data sources used are primary and secondary, the data collection method is obtained by conducting observations, documentation, literature studies and interviews with employees at Bhatik Sidomoelyo. From the data obtained, it can be concluded that the hand- written batik production process has six stages, among others: (a) drawing a design using primissima cotton cloth, (b) writing wax on the fabric using wax and canting, (c) coloring the fabric using remasol type fabric dye, (d) locking the color by coating the fabric with waterglass (e) removing the wax by boiling the cloth with boiling water mixed with detergent, tapioca starch and waterglass and (d) packaging the cloth. a piece of batik cloth measuring 2 meters takes about 2-4 days to process, depending on the difficulty of the pattern and coloring process. The making of written batik is still done in the traditional way, which causes the price of written batik to be higher than other types of batik.