Products of Batik Losari are created at the Omah Losari and Omah Jlamprang creative houses located in the Losari Village, Central Java. These beautiful batik cloths are created by women artisans of Losari Batik. A beautiful batik cloth is created piece by piece and requires perseverance, patients, and skill.  

There are few stages to create a beautiful batik cloth. Starting from drawing the motif on the cloth, applying wax on the cloth, immersing in dye, melting the wax, and washing the wax out.

Before designs are applied on fabric, it is firstly drawn on paper. The motif sketch is then transferred by placing the fabric on the paper and then tracing the design onto the base textile using a pencil.

After tracing the batik motif, the next step is painting the motif with melted wax, following the design and using a canting.

The application of wax is to cover the areas that will not be covered in dye during the colouring process. Canting will be required to cover the fine lines, while brushes are used to cover larger areas.

The cloth that has be applied with wax is then immersed in special batik dye made of natural ingredients, preventing environmental pollution. The area covered in wax will not absorb the dye. After the colouring process, the cloth is then dried out in the sun. This process is repeated for each colour applied on the batik. Wax is applied on areas that is not the coloured in the different colour dye.  

The next stage is nglorot or boiling off the wax on coloured cloth. This will cause the wax to melt and show the hand drawn motif. After the melting process, the batik is washed and hung to dry; resulting in a beautiful batik cloth.

Silk based batik are usually turned into shawls or scarfs, with both ends spinned into tassels to add elegance. The threads are braided and twirled resulting in beautiful tassels.

The end batik creation are then documented and noted per category of motif, material, and type. It is then sent to be marketed in many galleries.

Note: Batik Losari with natural dye are creations of women batik artisan from Losari Village and Jlamprang, nurtured and developed by Losari Foundation since 2005.