Batik Fractal is handmade modern batik textile made from conflux between traditional art and technology. We use jBatik software to create latest pattern influenced by our cultural beauty. Since 2007, we actively networked with more than 3000 artisans throughout Indonesia. We produce our design in its original way; by the hand of ibu-ibu, to finally fulfill your various outfit necessities.
Instead of imprisoning Batik in rigid cultural frame, we believe Batik should keep up with the spirit of time through innovation. Beyond just a fabric, Batik Fractal is an impactful meeting point to resolve the multidimensional challenge in strengthening this heritage. For us, Batik is not just an art or industry, it is where we define our identity.
Why Us
Batik Fractal is not just a brand, it is an innovation. We passionately transform traditional beauty to latest design through technology to preserve our identity. We intensively do research and linked with many Batik makers to ensure this legacy goes to you and broader opportunity. Every piece of our product contain our spirit to keep Batik alive throughout ages ahead.
Wear what meaningful, wear what impactful.
WE KEEP IT ORIGINAL
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Our technology is modern, but the idea inside is taken from the core of our cultural beauty. We use mathematical algorithm in jBatik software to bring out what is on batik designer mind to ready-to-use pattern. Inspired by various range of culture throughout Indonesia, we make sure that our pattern bring out the nuance of our origin beauty.
BEST QUALITY IN THE MARKET
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Our design are then produced carefully in traditional way by the hand of our artisans throughout Indonesia. This manual way –of waxing and resist-dyeing in repeat— is usually inherited from generation to generation. We also use best material for the fabric. This combination makes sure the quality of ours is undoubtedly perfect for you.
GREAT DURABILITY
FOR ITS CLASS
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Produced from best material in its original technique and latest design will make our fabric durable through any season and occasion. So technically, we are sure our product last longer even than your interest on wearing it day to day ahead.
FINEST GIFT TO
YOUR LOVED ONES
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Made with strong passion and spirit of our culture, our Batik Fractal is a best choiceto express your genuine feelings toward your loved one. From our various products, you could pick suitable item and let them feel your sincerity.
IT’S A BRAND WITH IMPACT
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Throughout our journey, we’re not only producing batik for industry purpose.
We intensively do research on Batik heritage, we give talk in academic institution, government and NGO to pursue further action on sustaining Batik.
And most importantly, we directly connected with more than 3.000 batik artisans throughout Indonesia, doing business in an ethical and compassionate way on making this mutual goal comes true.
SUSTAINABLE
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We strive for the sustainability, both on business aspect, social impact, and its goal to preserve batik as a cultural asset.
YOUTUBE
arga praga:
joint programme batik fractal with badan otorita borobudur
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Inspired by the beauty of the ancient landscape of Sangiran, ARGA PRAGA is here as a collective brand that represents the works of the Sragen District and Karanganyar District. The ARGA PRAGA batik motif is a summary of the richness of life between the flowing stretch of the Bengawan Sala river and the majestic peak of Mount Lawu.
Seeing the unseen | Tiktok indonesia
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When technology and batik meet in creative ways to show beauty from a side that has never been seen.
Tiktok Official Indonesia in #SeeingTheUnseen, in collaboration with @menjadimanusia.id and Batik Fractal, makes various batik patterns taken from the brain waves of mental health survivors to show the public that their mind has unexpected beauty.
Check out the batik from Marshanda’s brainwave and other #MentalHealth fighters at bit.ly/PusatKesehatanDigital as a form of support for this movement.
batik fractal pring pekalongan
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Batik Fractal brought the bamboo stamps to mass batik production in Pekalongan. Pring (bamboo) stamp used to produce the collection of Batik Fractal Pring launches May 2022. Bamboo stamps not only cater to small and household batik artisans but are also able to accommodate the bigger scale batik production in Pekalongan, the production city of batik in Indonesia.
batik fractal pring temanggung
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Pring means bamboo in Javanese. Utilising bamboo as a batik stamp is a way to empower the smallholder artisans in Temanggung during the pandemic. Bamboo is easily found in the artisans’ surroundings and cost next to nothing. Batik Fractal Pring aims to develop an affordable solution to create a different type of batik pattern with significant market demand, especially for the younger generation.
INTEL PRESENTS :
BATIK FRACTAL
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As a child, Nancy Magried often played the camera and went on an adventure to various cities with her father. This activity unconsciously give her perspective on cultural diversity in Indonesia that later become a main inspiration of Batik Fractal’s designs. She, for example, found out that each region has a distinctive pattern that can be processed into batik pattern. In this Intel video, Nancy also ells the process of creating a piece of batik cloth in Batik Fractal. Go watch!
sea today news:
indonesia batik innovation
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Technological advancement has made the process of making batik easier. Various techniques are utilized from the print method to augmented reality. These methods have made it easier for designers to draw patterns suitable to their own tastes. However, the most important thing is to make sure that the quality of the batik itself is top-notch. One of which is the Batik Fractal, which is a handmade modern batik that fuses traditional art and technology. To find out more, the Co-Founder and Chief of Design for Batik Fractal, Muhamad Lukman will talk about it on SEA Morning Show.
TED x Bandung:
Bringing Batik
To The New Level
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On TEDxBandung stage, Nancy Magried explained her secret recipe to come up with innovative ideas to be solutions to existing problems around us. She saw that the world was full of exciting unexplored ideas. The key is to combine diverse perspectives and find new meeting points that are full of possibilities. Batik Fractal, for example, is an idea born of three friends with very different backgrounds: social science, design and mathematics.
Watch this video to see how the meeting point between them can create jBatik and Batik Fractal.
batik fractal
video profile 2014
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In this 2014 profile video, Nancy Magried, Muhamad Lukman, and Yun Hariadi explained about Batik Fractal. From their philosophies about batik, innovations they created, to community-based activities as an effort to make Batik Fractal a part of the solution to social problems. In addition to the cooperative established in the Dago Pojok village in Bandung, jBatik technology has been used by more than 1000 batik artisans. All the efforts made by Batik Fractal are to celebrate Indonesian cultural heritage in a way that has never been done before.
BLACKXPERIENCE PRESENTS:
batik fractal
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“I think that creativity is when we create solutions to solve problems,” Nancy Magried.
In this coverage of Blackxperience, Nancy Magried explains the production flow that occurs behind the Batik Fractal brand. jBatik uses technology as a design tool. Batik Fractal still us traditional production methods to preserve culture, and also maintaining the quality of production. At the same time, Batik Fractal can be a solution to many problems facing the batik world today.
Podcast Streaming :
Friday Mate’s
Batik Fractal
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Listen to the explanation of Muhamad Lukman from Fractal Batik about their in depth research about Batik. From mathematical principles that surprisingly can be applied in almost all types of batik in Indonesia, to the characteristics of each region, and of course the journey of Batik Fractal until now. In this podcast, Lukman also explained the development of jBatik technology and the possibility of everyone creating their own batik designs. Curious?
Batik design
by algorithm?
TEDxUbud
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We used to know that technology and traditional are two opposing poles. Both abstruse side by side. Modernity seems to be the enemy of traditional things. This assumption is a challenge when Batik Fractal first introduced their technology. Pros and cons responses of batik’s people in Indonesia must be heard. In the end, Batik Fractal was able to prove that technology has made it possible for Batik to live in a new era. Not just a matter of design, jBatik has brought together crafters with market access, a variety of applications, and many other new possibilities.
Batik Fractal at
Metro TV
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This is Batik Fractal’s video when appearing on Kick Andy show on Metro TV. Muhamad Lukman and Yun Hariadi appeared on behalf of Batik Fractal. Together with them, also attended Ben Soebiakto and Billy Boen (founder of Young on Top). In the chat hosted by Andy F. Noya, they discussed Batik Fractal and the creative industry landscape in Indonesia. How does the impact of the presence of these new innovations on existing traditional arts, also the future possibility of this industry when young people inevitably play a role as a mobilizer.
Preserving batik as a traditional art in Indonesia is often hindered by various grips and rigid traditions. Batik Fractal believes the opposite. To preserve batik, young people must be proud of their identity. Philosophy, stories, skills, and production capabilities must be inherited and adapted to the times.
Batik Fractal is an effort to attain that goal. In Batik Fractal, technology is used as a conveyance to going through times. “If not, our traditional arts will only become artifacts on display at the museum,” said Nancy Margried.
NET5 – Batik Fractal
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Batik Fractal –
Indonesia Innovates
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The increasing number of young people who do not know their own culture, including being reluctant to use batik, which is their ancestral heritage, is actually a problem in context of Indonesia traditional art scene. If there’s no young generation interested in batik, batik could end up being an artifact in a museum and be forgotten. The technology created by Batik Fractal was made as a bridge for young people who are familiar with technology and the internet, with batik as an Indonesian traditional art. What can be created from this collaboration?
Empowering the
Indonesian
Batik community
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Batik is never just a piece of cloth, its beyond that. This valuable heritage is now in danger of being unsustainable due to numerous obstacles. Dead-end design, non-widespread marketing, and old-fashioned assumptions by young people are some of the main problems.
In this session, Nancy Magried described the journey of batik artisans and their exploration of Wahyu Tumurun’s motives with jBatik.
Batik Solo uniform
by Kalinggo Batik
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Sunu Kalinggo, one of the batik crafters from Solo, told about his journey using jBatik software from Batik Fractal. With the help of this software, his business is growing. At the same time, he also helps preserve the art of hereditary heritage which is preserved in his family. Now, in just a few days time he has been able to create a new pattern with the unique identity of the region. The design has also been developed and applied to various products.