Batik is a craft that has high artistic value and is now part of the culture of Indonesia (especially Java). What is the legacy of the Indonesian ancestors since time immemorial. History of Batik in Indonesia in the development of the Majapahit kingdom and later empire. In some notes on the development of batik many times Mataram kingdom, the kingdom of Solo and Yogyakarta do.

The tradition of batik was originally a hereditary tradition, sometimes that comes from a family known batik motif certain. Some batik motif represents the person's status. Even today, some of the traditional batik motifs used only by the family of Yogyakarta and Surakarta Palace.