Batik, Traditional Textiles of Indonesia. Rudolf Smend

      

      Contributors

       Inger McCabe Elliott

       Annegret Haake

       Donald Harper

       Jonathan Hope

       Brigitte Khan Majlis

       Rudolf Smend

       Antje Soléau

       Haryani Winotosastro

       Maria Wrońska-Friend

      Captions

       Maria Wrońska-Friend

      TUTTLE Publishing

       Tokyo | Rutland, Vermont | Singapore

      Galerie Smend

      Front cover: detail, no. 18, pp. 46–7

      Back cover (by row from top left):

      1. detail, no. 58, p. 112

      2. photo, p. 115

      3. detail, no. 49, p. 102

      4. detail, no. 47, p. 100

      5. detail, no. 8, p. 26

      6. detail, no. 19, pp. 48–9

      7. photo, p. 121

      8. detail, no. 33, p. 79

      9. detail, no. 35, p. 80

      Spine: detail, no. 20, pp. 50–1

      Front flap: reverse side, no. 57, p. 111

      Front endpaper: detail, no. 34, p. 80

      Back endpaper: detail, no. 37, p. 81

      p. 1: detail, no. 35, p. 80

      p. 2: detail, no. 36, p. 81

      pp. 4–5: detail, no. 67, pp. 130–1

      pp. 6–7: detail, no. 56, pp. 109

      p. 175: detail, no. 6, pp. 22–3

      Contents

      Preface

       From the Rudolf Smend & Donald Harper Batik Collections

       Contributions

       My Introduction to the World of Batik

       Donald Harper

       Batik and I

       Jonathan Hope

       Attracted by Javanese Culture

       Annegret Haake

       Batik: Fabled Cloth of Java

       Inger McCabe Elliott

       A Prophetic Gift

       Brigitte Khan Majlis

       Chance, Fate or Magic?

       Rudolf Smend

       Back to His Roots

       Antje Soléau

       Javanese Batik to the World

       Maria Wrońska-Friend

       Growing up With Batik

       Haryani Winotosastro

       Contributors’ Publications

       Glossary

       Select Bibliography

       Acknowledgments

       Batik Collections

       Photo Credits

       Production Credits

       Poem

      Preface

      Thanks to the Museum Tekstil in Jakarta, a new publication on batik is being launched.

      In 2000, I published a catalogue entitled Batik: Javanese and Sumatran Batiks from Courts and Palaces. His Highness Sultan Hamengku Buwono X and his wife Queen Hamas were kind enough to travel all the way from Yogyakarta to Germany to officially open the exhibition at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in Cologne.

      In 2006, the Deutsches Textilmuseum (German Textile Museum) in Krefeld invited me to display batik from my collection. The occasion was to mark one hundred years since the very first batik exhibition ever held in Germany—in Krefeld—had taken place.

      In June 2015, the Museum Tekstil in Jakarta celebrated the opening of an exhibition entitled Highlights from the North Coast to Bimasakti, which presented pieces from Brigitte Willach and my collections. The planning and preparation for this event led to this, my third catalogue.

      The main reason for