Kampung Batik Laweyan

Laweyen is one more Solo of central batik. There is much history in this solo city.
Batik is traditional art in solo society. This legacy is no haven can be found again. No wonder you are in Laweyan batik trader rich. People living in this Laweyan we can see from the forms of buildings.

Each merchant's house is usually surrounded by high walls. The goal is that time for security reasons. However, even though each home is limited to the wall, there is a door between the houses that connects the home with one another so that at still awake. Perhaps in some homes, there are alley and underground bunker that serves to evacuate when the attack occurred.

Alley between the walls in the high Laweyan. Overview forms the building that houses are surrounded by this wall reminds me will Kotagede. Light alone, the city administration Kotagede inspired by the city administration in Laweyan because Senopati Panembahan, son of Ki Ageng Pemanahan spend much time in this small village. When the track again, a Monument in the center of this area is used to market. However, this market is no longer found. Senopati Panembahan contemporary living in a small area north of the market. Senopati Panembahan home while in Kotagede is located in the northern market. This is because he called Raden Ngabehi Market Loring.

When the kingdom of Mataram, the village moved to Sala, which then changed its name to the Kraton Surakarta, Laweyan still feel that as a region free no wish to subject to the Palace. This is because the merchant they feel is rich and able to live without the need to join with the local authority Palace. This resistance could also be due at the Palace so close to the Netherlands and the batik traders in the region are Muslim bumiputra tradesman. This attitude of the visible forms of batik patterns that no follow-grip grip motifs, such as batik motives Palace.

When the Dutch Colonial period, in 1905 the organization appear Trading States of Islam initiated by KH Samanhudi, a batik merchant. Establishment of SDI goal was how to unify the Muslim bumiputra batik trader in the Netherlands to face Laweyan the increasingly strong influence in the Palace. Home K.H. Samanhudi still available and can be found in this area.

Top services from K.H. Samanhudi, President Soekarno provide a home for KH Samanhudi which until now still used by the grandchildren and descendants of Samanhudi KH. Home of President Soekarno to K.H. Samanhudi Building in the middle and north Laweyan most established "death road", where this road seemed to be quiet because the walls between the houses that mutual distance.

While the area in the south close to Times Kabangan houses tend to be open and form the "road of life" in which the doors of the front of the house face-to-face interactions, making it possible. Homes in central and northern areas populated by the trader, while in the south inhabited by the workers batik. Formerly, many Roads which cross from north to south to the Times Kabangan. This road is called "road service" that serves to bring half-finished batik cloth to be washed in Kabangan Times. Time first time in the water so clean, so this is still feasible to use for washing. In addition, the dye batik material Relic is made of natural materials so that no dangerous nature.

Batik industry and the seal was collapse when Laweyan entrance batik-batik sablon. The process of batik, which is faster and make a bulk price of batik sablon become cheaper. Of course, this slug industry and cap batik on Laweyan. Not to mention the expansion of the business conducted by the Chinese traders who then tried to control the area Laweyan. During almost pembatik several generations in Laweyan roll Mats. Batik business in Laweyan made from generation to generation was lost.

The youth thus Laweyan much out of the area and try to get outside Laweyan. Not so, Bal Kang? However, in 2000-industry batik Laweyan also rise again. Moreover, since the Establishment of forums Kampung Batik Laweyan try again lift the tourism potential of this heritage village.

If the first businessman to become only batik manufacturer and Supplier, now they also open a showroom in-house showroom respectively. We can wander the alley-alley Laweyan into homes batik trader to see more closely with the process of making batik. Stag activities pembatik in Laweyan The recommended time to view the activity in the village is this morning. From making, dyeing, and drying clothes batik can we see to the middle of the day?

Quoted from :http://indonesiaculturalnews.blogspot.com/2009/05/kampung-laweyan-centra-batik-solo.html

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