Product Description

Batik Pekalongan: Jako Tarub

Material: Cotton
Style: Java
Size: Length 242 cm, width 106 cm
Order Number: T60

Background: Pekalongan became known as “Batik City” and the foremost centre of north coast Javanese batik.

It was and is a commercial centre and has had contact with China, Arab countries and the Netherlands.

In the early part of the 20th century, European women in the area encouraged high technical tandards. There was a renaissance in batik art.

The batik designers adapted foreign design elements, free of symbolic meanings. The pure aesthetic qualities of the cloth took precedence and this led to an explosion of colours and naturalistic expressions.