Sunday, January 11, 2015

Motif of Batik Wirasat

Batik Wirasat

Wirasat have meaning a symbolic in associated with an pray or other application. Bathik is a development of Sida Mulya motif whose content consists of various shades of bathik. Among them: bathik "Cakar/Claw", "Truntum", "Sida Luhur", and "Sida Mulya".

Meaning of this motif, so granted every request, reaching the position of eminence and independent, fulfilled all the material, also request guidance from God when he gets dark so quickly given the solution. Bathik This motif appears simultaneously with Sida Mukti bathik motif during the PB. IV in year of 1800.

At the beginning of this motif used by the elderly, but the development of this motif in the parent community is often used by bride's son in the event 'mbesan'. This motif is a lattice like bathik sido luhur, sido mukti and related to trust.

This is a basic understanding of the concept of power is believed to arise from the universe, as well as of human power. In this geometric pattern bathik symbolizes that the king is a symbol of power and the world, a means of giving revelation embodied by giving rank position to the people.

King also protective laws enacted through. This is illustrated motives meet in the four intersection points form a rhombus, as a symbol of the king surrounded by aides as they are called "Pancaniti" where;
  • King as a Judge,
  • Patih as an Attorney,
  • Poet as the Registrar and
  • Senapati and Ulama as the basis for the balance of the decision.

Or for the Javanese, the four of center is as power of universe, which also:
  • Purwa means east associated with the rising sun means the beginning of everything.
  • Daksina mean peak south as a symbol of life everything.
  • Pracima means west symbolizes the sunset.
  • Kantara means north, symbolizing the end of a life on earth.

Before motif of Wirasat appearing in Surakarta, for Bathik with  geometrically patterned has developed first by the motif of "ceplok".

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