Unknown Maker, Indonesian

After the mid-19th century, batik-making flourished in both Central Java and in the Pasisir. Many North Coast entrepreneurs began to keep stocks of unfinished batiks, pieces dyed only with the specialty red dyes for which the North Coast was renowned. These would then be sent as needed to Central Java, where specialists in brown and blue dyes would add those colors, often using designs also specific to their regions. This unfinished example shows what the cloth would look like after the first waxing and dyeing, but before the second application of wax resist.