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Yogyakarta Batik Dominant in Hong Kong | Yogyakarta Batik Dominant in Hong Kong |
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"Two designers from Yogyakarta participate in the Hong Kong Fashion Week. From that event, the people there learned about batik creations. Many buyers are interested," said Head of Section Pengemba with Export Trade Cooperation and Industry Department SME Yogyakarta Endang Sri Nuryani, Saturday ( 7 / 8).
"If batik course, they are less interested. However, when combined with other materials, they are so interested," he said. Interested in developing From that meeting, a number of fashion industry players in Hong Kong expressed interest in using batik as a material for their products. They are interested in making dresses and completeness of batik material. There also are interested in making underwear from batik. According to Endang, similar interests to create opportunities for overseas marketing batik. However, when this opportunity is still difficult to use because of batik can not become a mass product. In addition, batik is still seen as cultural products, so its use as a fabric in need to be discussed further. "If the claim meets the needs of the garment industry, market demand would be huge and massive. It's still difficult because of batik is made manually, the price is too expensive. They do not know if the making of batik is very sophisticated (complicated)," he said. Still, there are opportunities that should be utilized because there is not only batik producers in Indonesia. "Maybe in the future there could be a new development method of batik can be answered so that the market demands," he said. Afif designer Syakur states, the Hong Kong Fashion Week show attracted people of Yogyakarta products overseas. If developed further according to international fashion tastes, cultural richness of Yogyakarta will be able to get a place in the world market. |
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