AllegrA&LinA is ndonesian Batik & Fashion base in Savannah,Georgia & Tangerang,Indonesia.
AllegrA&LinA company
shortened to A&L monogram is an Indonesian Batik & Fashion home company founded in 2011 in Jakarta,Indonesia where i'm originally from and brought here to USA in the beginning month of 2012,hoping will become among the world's most valuable brands.
We sell everything in Handmade and we called it " BATIK".We are starting selling Handmade dresses that we brought fr Indonesia to USA.
BATIK (/ˈbætɪk/ or /bəˈtiːk/; Javanese pronunciation: [ˈbateʔ]; Indonesian: [ˈbatɪk]) is a cloth that is traditionally made using a manual wax-resist dyeing technique.Wax resist dyeing technique in fabric is an ancient art form.
UNESCO designated Indonesian batik as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on October 2, 2009.As part of the acknowledgment,UNESCO insisted that Indonesia preserve their heritage.
Technique Melted wax (Javanese: malam) is applied to cloth before being dipped in dye. It is common for people to use a mixture of beeswax and paraffin wax.The beeswax will hold to the fabric and the paraffin wax will allow cracking,which is a characteristic of batik.Wherever the wax has seeped through the fabric,the dye will not penetrate. Sometimes several colours are used,with a series of dyeing,drying and waxing steps.
Thin wax lines are made with a tjanting,a wooden handled tool with a tiny metal cup with a tiny spout,out of which the wax seeps.After the last dyeing,the fabric is hung up to dry.Then it is dipped in a solvent to dissolve the wax,or ironed between paper towels or newspapers to absorb the wax and reveal the deep rich colors and the fine crinkle lines that give batik its character.This traditional method of batik making is called batik tulis.
The application of wax with a tjanting tool is done with great care and therefore is very time-consuming.As the population increased and commercial demand rose, time-saving methods evolved.
Industrialization of Technique :
1)Other methods of applying the wax to the fabric include pouring the liquid wax.
2)Painting the wax with a brush.
3)Putting hot wax onto pre-carved wooden or copper block (called a cap or tjap) and stamping the fabric.The tjanting is used like a pen on the cloth.
The invention of the copper block (cap) developed by the Javanese in the 20th century revolutionized batik production.By block printing the wax onto the fabric,it became possible to mass-produce designs and intricate patterns much faster than one could possibly do by using a tjanting.
4)Batik print is the common name given to fabric that incorporates batik pattern without actually using the wax-resist dyeing technique.It represents a further step in the process of industrialization,reducing the cost of batik by mass-producing the pattern repetitively,as a standard practice employed in the worldwide textile industry.
I believe that we can not call print as a Batik,only the motive has Batik on it.
