{"product_id":"ibu-nuridah-jarik-materos-manuk-merak","title":"IBU NURIDAH — JARIK MATEROS MANUK MERAK","description":"\u003ch3\u003eIbu Nuridah\u003cbr\u003eBorn 1953, Batang, Indonesia\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJARIK MATEROS MANUK MERAK (2025)\u003cbr\u003e100% Cotton, synthetic dyes \u003cbr\u003eHand-drawn wax resist on machine-woven cotton \u003cbr\u003e252 x 102 cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eA testament to sixty years of artistic dedication, this intricate materos jarik cloth is abundant in symbolism and surprises.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 5.0pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Akzidenz Grotesk BE',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN\"\u003eThere is a certain magic in the \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003emateros\u003c\/i\u003e style: the background appears, from a distance, to be entirely plain. Only on close inspection is it revealed to be covered in an extraordinarily fine field of \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eukelan\u003c\/i\u003e — tiny, spiralling vine-like curls drawn with the lightest possible stroke of the \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003ecanting\u003c\/i\u003e. This level of fine work is among the most technically demanding in Rifa’iyah batik, achievable only by artists with exceptional control and patience. Mbah Nuridah created this piece over a 12-month period.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 5.0pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Akzidenz Grotesk BE',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN\"\u003eThe style takes its name from Mrs Matheron (née Willemse), a Dutch-descended batik merchant in Banyumas, Central Java, who inherited the workshop of her aunt, Mrs Catharina Carolina van Oosterom (1816–1900), one of the influential Dutch entrepreneurs who shaped Java’s north coast batik industry in the 19th century. Her batiks became so celebrated that the style was named after her — \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003ebatik matheron\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003emateros\u003c\/i\u003e — characterised by fine, intricate vine-like fills, often on a light or apparently plain background. The style was copied in Pekalongan by the 1920s, and eventually reached Batang, where the Rifa’iyah community absorbed it and imbued it with their own Sufi spiritual meaning. The interconnected vines are seen as a symbol of the kinship ties and relationships through which prosperity flows.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 5.0pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Akzidenz Grotesk BE',sans-serif;\" lang=\"EN\"\u003eThe foreground features two magnificent pairs of \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eburung merak\u003c\/i\u003e (peacocks), rendered in the \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003esamaran\u003c\/i\u003e style: their heads detached, their bodies, wings and extravagant tail plumage constructed entirely from long, majestic leaf forms, almost symmetrical but not quite. These careful deviations from perfect symmetry are intentional. In the Rifa’iyah tradition, the deliberate introduction of a stylised flaw is the artist’s act of deference to the true Creator — a quiet acknowledgement that only God may achieve perfection. The peacock itself carries rich symbolism across Javanese and Chinese-influenced coastal batik: beauty, grace, prosperity and good fortune; depicted as a pair, marriage and partnership. Elsewhere, smaller \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003emanuk samaran\u003c\/i\u003e — abstracted birds — flutter through the design, never depicted whole, in keeping with the Sufi Islamic teaching that living creatures must not be shown in their entirety unless one can also grant them a soul.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Mbah Nur accidentally made a stiny hole with her \u003cem\u003ecanting \u003c\/em\u003enear along one edge of this piece and would like to apologise for her lapse in concentration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eIbu Nuridah (Mbah Nur)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLearning batik as a young child, Mbah Nur has been practicing for more than 60 years. She loves creating batik, including free-form \u003cem\u003erelawati\u003c\/em\u003e motifs and the complex and intricate \u003cem\u003esatria\/materos\u003c\/em\u003e styles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ibu Nuridah","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53762198339883,"sku":"BPB002","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/6753\/5915\/files\/BPB018_Ibu_Nuridah_Jarik_Materos_Manuk_Merak_SV.png?v=1781507199","url":"https:\/\/sahulandsunda.com\/products\/ibu-nuridah-jarik-materos-manuk-merak","provider":"Sahul \u0026 Sunda","version":"1.0","type":"link"}