Utilization of Natural Color Material from Rod, Leaf and Jackfruit Tree Root Extracts as Batik Fabric Dyes
- Keywords
- batik, dyes, natural
- Abstract
Batik is one of Indonesias original cultures that has been recognized worldwide. UNESCO recognizes batik as an Indonesian intagible culture. Indonesian batik is recognized worldwide because of its beautiful composition of motifs and colors in a piece of batik. Batik crafters generally use synthetic dyes such as naptol, remasol or indigosol. This synthetic batik dye contains a lot of chemicals. The use of batik dyes that contain chemicals continuously will have a negative impact on the environment. Therefore it is necessary to experiment with natural dyes, to reduce the containing chemicals. In this study experiments were conducted using jackfruit stem extract, jackfruit leaves and jackfruit roots as natural dyes. Fixation is done with three types of fixators, namely kapur, tawas and tunjung. The experiment that I did was the polishing of each color extract using kapur fixation, tawas, and tunjung on a cotton cloth that had been mordan. To see the results of the dyes the experiment was carried out with different amounts of polishing with each fixation. The results showed that the part of jackfruit plants that gave rise to thick colors were leaves. Root and stem extracts produce faded colors. The use of natural dyes requires more time than synthetic dyes because to bring up a thick color must go through a process of polishing more than ten times.
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TY - CONF AU - Denik Ristya Rini AU - Mitra Istiar Wardhana AU - Ima Kusumawati Hidayat PY - 2019/05 DA - 2019/05 TI - Utilization of Natural Color Material from Rod, Leaf and Jackfruit Tree Root Extracts as Batik Fabric Dyes BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Arts and Culture (ICONARC 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 29 EP - 30 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125911154 ID - Rini2019/05 ER -