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BATIK BALANDA (SECTION). JAVA, C 1920, COTTON. COURTESY RUDOLF SMEND COLLECTION, COLOGNE – TAASA Review March 2011

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This article was originally found in the March 2011 edition of TAASA Review (Volume 20, Issue 1, Page 12).

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inhabitants’ ethnicities and textile traditions are quite different.

So the questions are: what was the impetus for such radical changes to traditional motifs in each region at that time and what connection was there between Java and Cambodia in this regard? Batik-patterned cloth has been made in Java for centuries.

Patterns on court batiks, those of the inland principalities, are traditionally conservative but from the mid-19th century, boldly innovative patterns began to appear...