Each motif tells a story, embodying history, mythology, and local ... Folklore suggests that parang batik offered spiritual ...

A life with batik. The stages range from mitoni where in the seventh month of pregnancy, a woman is bathed 7 times in water from 7 different sources perfumed with pink and white rose petals and ...

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Nobles were allowed to wear batik keratonan. Looking at Kartini's pictures, she was always wearing batik with parang motif, something only nobles could adorn. But surprisingly, the batik Kartini wrote ...