OEY SOE TJOEN BATIK
-OEY SOE TJOEN BATIK- KEDUNGWUNI near PEKALONGAN The finest and most technically intricate examples of the batik process have been made on the north coast of Java in workshops operated by Peranakan Chinese. Some of the most notable examples of this type of batik have come from the workshop of Oey Soe Tjoen and his wife Kwee Nettie at Kedungwuni. Batiks from the Oey Soe Tjoen workshop were and still are, often masterpieces and represent some of the finest and most technically elaborate examples in the history of batik. (Detail 1) . We first visited the Oey Soe Tjoen workshop in Kedungwuni in May 2007. After much discussion with Oey Soe Tjoen's granddaughter and the third generation successor, Widianti Widjaja (Oey Kiem Lian) , we purchased this extremely beautiful cloth from her (Satu sarung No. 31, tanahan soga - merah ). Central to our discussions was the two generations of the Oey Soe Tjoen family who had prece...
