Fashion batik signed Bali are the offspring of an ancient Javanese tradition well established in the classic period of Majapait Empire.
The word/term batik denotes a craftsmanship for printing indelible patterns on textiles using wax and full immersions dyes.
An art exclusively masculine whereas weaving was reserved to the other half of the sky because only at the end of XIX Century women were allowed making batik but using cantik, the wax pen, and they could never put hands on the shining and virile brass cap.
Cap is a form of art by itself, a tool made out of an intricate network of brass strands shaping very elaborate design.
The mystical tradition, widely spread over the Indonesian Archipelago, saw in those patterns not only an expressions of individualization and the open will to be part of a coherent universe but mainly a magical protection against the forces of disorder.
A gradual and continous development brought from the basic patterns of the Western Java kain simbut to the marvellous kain dodot made in the Royal Kraton of Central Java. Not only each Kraton had its own style and its own patterns but just taking a look to a sarong was enough to understand, from the batik, the status and the background of the wearer.
Created hundreds of years ago as status symbol, batik waited an Italian fashionist, to reassume, in a cultural continuity, their primary function.With a western eye Made approached to this antique craftsmanship revitalizing it with the Made in Italy concept of Alta Moda, gathering in the Island of Gods the best javanise craftmen, forging new cap, working with new textiles and new colours thus far giving life to the fashion batik signed Balifu
