Indonesian Art of Textile

Although the process of decorating cloth through the process of batik
is found in several regions in Africa or India and even in some South
East Asian countries, the batik of Indonesia is unique and unequaled.
Indonesian Batik is made in several regions, but the center of the art
is Central Java, in cities like Yogyakarta, Solo, Cirebon, Pekalongan
and Indramayu.
The pride of Indonesians to wear batik till the present day has
preserve this art of textile.
The beauty of Batik is a tribute to the patience, creativity of the
woman of Java, the main island of Indonesia. Credit should be also
given to men who prepare the cloth and handle the dyeing and finishing
process.
Batik is generally thought of as the most quintessentially Indonesian
textile. Motifs of flowers, twinning plants, leaves buds, flowers,
birds, butterflies, fish, insects and geometric forms are rich in
symbolic association and variety; there are about three thousand
recorded batik patterns.

Source: discover-indo