EXPLORATION OF BATIK PARANG AND KAWUNG VISUAL WITH DRAPING TECHNIQUE

• Main Author: Anthonia, Fioren
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/65512
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Indonesia has a variety of batik motifs, which originally came from the palace including the parang and kawung motifs. Batik parang and kawung visual have geometric, repetitive, and tidy characteristics. The use of batik parang and kawung visual has been widely developed by batik craftsmen and designers, both using the written and stamped batik method and other methods, such as printing and weaving. Of the various forms of use of batik parang and kawung visual elements, the majority of the use is still in the form of two-dimensional presentation. This opens the potential to develop batik parang and kawung visual in three-dimensional form, such as using the draping technique. Draping is a technique of producing three-dimensional shapes on fabrics which are made directly on mannequins. The results of exploration of batik parang and kawung visual with draping techniques are then used to manufacture fashion products in the form of womenswear collections. Exploration is carried out by collecting qualitative data, starting with a visual review of the batik parang and kawung visual. A visual review was conducted to find a variety of simplified stylization that can be obtained from batik motifs. Exploration of draping techniques using six different fabric materials, consisting of three natural-based fabrics and three synthetic-based fabrics. The first stage of exploration tested six fabrics on three draping techniques. The second stage of exploration combines draping techniques to achieve the visual form of batik parang and kawung. Further exploration is carried out by comparing the selected fabric materials with the addition of visual color to look for other visual potentials. The concept of the design consists of two moodboards, each of which has two looks, the moodboard represents the color of sogan in monochrome moodboard and isen-isen in colorful moodboard. The results of this study indicate that visual exploration of batik parang and kawung, which uses synthetic silk polyester "Armani" and jersey fabric materials, can be carried out through draping techniques and can be applied to womenswear products.