The History Of Batik Pekalongan

The origin of the name of the town of Pekalongan as expressed by the community as a walled there are several versions. One of them is mentioned in the time of Baurekso became regent of Pekalongan and also as the Commander of the Mataram Kingdom. In 1628 he got orders from Sultan Agung to attack kompeni in Batavia. Then he fought hard, even beginning with penance such as flying fox/bat (Javanese topo ngalong) in the forest to gambiran gas station (now: kampung Description). In its asceticism is told that Ki Baurekso stealth soldiers harassed and deceived by a Messenger Goddess Lanjar, but to no avail even Goddess dipersunting Baurekso as his wife Lanjar. Since that time, the area known by the name of Pekalongan. In another version mentioned that the names of Pekalongan also comes from the word Apek and Along (Javanese: apek (search), along (a lot). It relates to sea waters in an area which is rich in fish by results of Pekalongan.rnPekalongan is one of 35 Cities/Counties in the Central Java province. In its development towards free competition, the City Government Pekalongan continued first settled digging potentialities that exist. During this time the city has been known as the city of Pekalongan BATIK is the center of Batik production and sales on a large scale has been reaching out to national and International Markets, Pekalongan arguably has become one of the reference city for Batik products, both nationally and internationally it has been reinforced with a diresmikannnya National Museum of Batik Indonesia by President of the Republic (Mr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono) on 12 July 2006. In addition to Batik Pekalongan City also has the potential of business in the field of Fishing with a fishing port that was once the center of the archipelago-biggest fish in Indonesia, other potential is a legacy of historic buildings, Shopping, art, religious culture tourist attractions and beaches of Golden sand beach Slamaran Beautiful and hot spring Baths Tirta Earth. In The City Of Pekalongan. Pekalongan Town community consists of various ethnic groups, with its majority ethnic Javanese, plus ethnic Arabs and China. Since ancient societies Pekalongan predominantly Islam known to be very religious in the conduct of daily life. Religious properties it shows where on Friday at large businesses were closed, many schools and non formal education that teaches Islamic teachings as well as the terpeliharanya Islamic art and culture. The ethnic Chinese community of which there are quite a lot and been assimilated into the ethnic Javanese also melesterikan culture they bring from his ancestors. It is seen by the existing houses of worship Buddha as well as art community and culture that is still preserved. Social life and economy spurred the growth of a variety of businesses as well as other necessities of life, including in the field of tourism. With the need to exploit all resources and improve revenue areas, expand employment opportunities, as well as introducing potential tourism attempted, then the Government town of Pekalongan need to increase tourism development program which, among others, through the management and utilization of the tourism and excavations of new tourism object that already exists but has not yet been developed. The history of Batik in Pekalongan begin haengju and split from in the neighborhood of Mataram Kingdom at that time led by King of Panembahan Senopati. War against Dutch colonial and the split among the Kingdom's environment is indeed often happens, until at one point the most severe condition caused many families to seek refuge in King and settled a new didaerah-daerah to Pekalongan, among others. The families of the Kingdom are indeed has had a tradition of batik and batik work developed from this refuge to the area pengunsian in Pekalongan. In the area of Pekalongan batik was eventually grew rapidly as in Pekajangan and Wonopringgo, Buaran. The Sultan's family fled and took his followers to new areas, and place that batik continued and then into work for a livelihood. Batik motifs in a new area is customized with a State of the surrounding area. rnUntil the beginning of XX century the process of batik work is known by morinya batik material domestically and also some import. After World War one new known fabrication siwon and consumption of medicines abroad made Germany and United Kingdom. rnAt the beginning of the 20th century was first known in the weaving sector which produces Pekajangan is stagen and linen woven himself was simple. In recent years a new known batik work done by people who are working on this. disektor weaving sector Growth and development of baju batik work more rapidly than weaving sector stagen and labour-labour ever sugar factory in Wonopringgo and Tirto run to the companies own reward, because batikis higher than sugar factoryrn