Biography / History Blangkon



A Blangkon is headgear that is used by men as part of a traditional Javanese clothes. A Blangkon is actually practical form of iket which is headgear made from batik. There is no historical record that can explain the origins of the Java man wearing a headband or it.

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In Javanese antiquity, there is indeed a legend about Aji Soko. In this story, the existence of any head iket has called, namely when the Aji Soko defeated Gods Cengkar, a giant ruler of the land of Java, just by rolling out a turban that can cover the whole Java island.  But as we know, Aji Soko was later known as the creator and first year Java framers, beginning in 1941.

There are a number of theories that State that the use of influence, the blangkon Hindu culture and Islam which is absorbed by the Javanese. According to experts, a Muslim who converted to Java consists of two ethnic Chinese descendants are from mainland China and Gujarat traders. Traders from Gujarat, it is the descendants of Arabs, they're always wearing a turban, which is long and the width of cloth tied on their heads. Turban is to inspire people to put just as much as people head iket descendants of the Arabs.

There is another theory that is derived from the Elders say that in antiquity, the head is not permanent like iket turban always strapped on their heads. But with the economic crisis caused by the war, Cain became one item that is hard to come by.

Therefore, the Royal officials asking artists to create the headband using separoh than usual for the efficiency of The exercise of a permanent form of head covering with a cloth called blangkon more efficient.

In antiquity, blangkon indeed can only be made by skilled artists with existing (rules) are raw. Increasingly meet the existing standard laid down, then the blangkon will be higher in value. An expert culture named Becker never examined the procedures of making this, apparently making Blangkon blangkon requires a skill called virtuso skill. According to him, an object That is useful, that it required virtuso skill to make "neither of these precludes it from also thought beatiful. Some craft generete from within their own tradition a feeling for beauty and with it appropriete aesthetic standards and



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