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Batik influences throughout history

Batik is the art of wax resistance techniques applied to fabrics originating in South East Asia, on the north coast of the island of Java, Indonesia. Indonesian batik is unique and unequaled. Centuries ago, the demand for Indonesian batik skyrocketed, and Indonesian batik knock-offs were produced and sold throughout the trade routes to Asia, India, the Middle East, and Africa. To prevent the production of knock-offs, famous batik artists signed their work, which noted authentic ness of the piece (Drakeley 1997: 72). Batik has had a long-standing importance for the Indonesian people, representing their culture, history, and religion throughout centuries of outside influences from foreign cultures.
The Hindu kingdom arrived in Indonesia, directed through trade routes, to spread the Hinduism, arriving around 200 BC (Zoetmulder 1982: 16). These trade routes were commonly used by merchants to trade foreign goods in exchange for new items to bring......

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