Story of Bali, Indonesia

It is worth noting that the tumpal motif, too, appears on the borders of some groups of patterns. Here an ancient symbol has survived.

As already mentioned, the earliest batik fabrics are one-coloured; they have a colourless drawing on a dark blue ground. For this blue ground indigo was used-a light-resisting colouring-matter obtained from the leaves of various plants of the get it is indigofera by means of fairly complex processes.

It was only later that multi-coloured batik fabrics were produced. In the 'Principalities' Preference was given to the colour combination of indigo, soga brown and white. Soga is obtained from the bast of certain trees. but this particularly beautiful colour will not adhere to the fabric without the use of a fixative.

Their names are Ken Bajan, Ken Sangit, Ken Pasiran, and Ken Pangoenengan, tides drawn like all the others from the Javanese romance Pandji. They are dressed like the princess in tightly wound cloth of gold and flower-laden crowns, save that she wears a stole and a long train, while they have a sash hanging over the left shoulder. They do a long and elaborate dance in very slow movement, with varied grouping and much sinking and rising, before the great lady herself enters and drifts up the stage: with infinitely slow evolutions, her delicate hands revolving, her arm movements resembling the indefinable slow cadence of Redjang. Before she sits down among her ladies at the far end the tjondong rises and does a dance in front of her, during which a dialogue introduces the intrigue.

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