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Jogjakarta, The Handicraft Heaven
Jogjakarta or Yogyakarta, or more often referred to Jogja is a city on the island of Java Indonesia. Jogja is a kingdom Ngayogyakarta who is now a part of the territory of Indonesia. Jogja is a center of culture and art in the island of Java, a lot of great artists from Indonesia this city. The high activity in the city's art makes Jogjakarta become major tourist destination in Indonesia after Bali.
Kasongan
Kasongan a small village in the south of Jogja, known as a tourist village. Originally Kasongan is a village household appliances producer of ceramics made from clay. As development Kasongan became a craft center, is due to the creative people. Lots of craft items from Kasongan, maybe you should come directly to this village, the inhabitants opened a showroom in front of their house, and we could see their production process directly because of its proximity, for example in their backyard. There are even some that provide courses making ceramics,well very interesting. One form of Kasongan craft is glass mosaic craft that can be viewed on their website at lempoeng-mosaic.com. Lempoeng Glass mosaic craf produces handicrafts such as glass mosaic tile, glass mosaic vase, table glas mosaic, glass mosaic mirror, etc.. Motifs and colors used in the handicraft mosaic glass is very unique, different from the handicrafts produced in other areas, because of Jogja has evironment of culture of high art. This glass mosaic crafts using good techniques and materials with high quality, proven because they are supplying the needs of the world, particularly Europe.
Kotagede
Kotagede located in the southeastern city of Jogjakarta. Kotagede an area that had become the capital of the kingdom Ngayogyakarta, because there are many historic relics building. Kotagede is the center of silver that very popular in Indonesia after Bali. Initially silver centers in Kotagede there because the silversmiths got a great job of making things from silver to meet the needs of Ngayokyakarta palace. Ngayogyakarta is an empire which now has an area called Jogjakarta. Since the 1930's the craftsmen began to meet the needs of the general public, such as silver jewelry.
Silver jewelry from kotagede, Jogjakarta has a unique technical motives. If you want to see examples of kotagede silver jewelry, can be viewed at the following website that sells silver jewelry in retail. Generally the craftsmen use traditional Filigree techniques to create silver jewelry. They are made of silver thread and silver thread is formed according to the desired pattern. Motifs used in silver jewelry kotagede is typical Javanese ethnic motifs, which are also common in Javanese art of others, such as batik, puppets, masks, sculpture, wood carving, etc..
In addition to silver jewelry, silver craftsmen kotagede also produce miniature silver, they usually make a miniature of traditional vehicle, and the most unique is the landmark building, and the ancient temple which houses the Buddhist religious prayer or a Hindu in antiquity. All of these have a silver miniature decorative style with ethnic Jogjakarta motif. Besides silver, the craftsmen also use other materials more cheaply, for example copper, brass or tin. With materials such as lead, the craftsmen often use them to create pewter miniature craft, to see one example of a pewter miniature craft can be seen on the pewter miniature craft blog of craftsmen.
The Other Craft Village
Actually a lot of villages that became a hub for handicrafts in Jogjakarta, which they produce goods such as bags woven from natural fibers, the traditional cloth of batik, wayang. You can find info from the internet about the craft of Jogja. Now many craftsmen from Jogjakarta start promote craft items from the internet.
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