8/29/08

Batik - Indoneisa Wedding Custom

Wedding Custom, Batik has been both an art and a craft for centuries. In Java, Indonesia, batik is part of an ancient tradition, and some of the finest batik cloth in the world is still made there.

Contemporary batik, while owing much to the past, is markedly different from the more traditional and formal styles. For example, the artist may use etching, discharge dyeing, stencils, different tools for waxing and dyeing, wax recipes with different resist values and work with silk, cotton, wool, leather, paper or even wood and ceramics.

Indonesian batik fabric

Wedding is a ceremony that celebrates the beginning of a marriage. Wedding traditions and customs very greatly between cultures, ethnic groups, religions, countries, and social classes. In some countries, cultures and religions, jewellery the actual act of marriage begins during the wedding ceremony. In others, the legal act of marriage occurs at the time of signing a marriage license or other legal document, and the wedding is then an opportunity to perform a traditional ceremony and celebrate with friends and family. A woman being married is called a bride, a man called a groom, and after the ceremony they become a wife or a husband. next...
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