Abstract
<p>There is a wide array of traditional toys in Indonesia. In the past, traditional toys played an important role for skill and creativity development of children. Today, the position of traditional toys in the society is displaced by toys from large-scale manufacturers. Given the critical role of traditional toys for children’s motoric and social development, there is a need to develop media that can be used to promote these traditional products and strengthen their position in the public. We propose to use Batik as a way to effectively disseminate and promote traditional toys to the general public. Apart from this, using traditional toys to create new Batik motifs can have an economic value for the producers of Batik, promote Indonesian products and enrich the Indonesian Batik. This study aims to explore the variety of traditional toys, mainly from Klaten and Magelang, in the Central Java province of Indonesia, and use them as the basis for the development of Batik motif creation. This study used Trilogi Keseimbangan (or Harmony Trilogy) aesthetic theory analytical approach that explains the creation of craft consists of the following phases: exploration, design, and materialization. The creation method in this study adopts Tiga Tahap Enam Langkah (Three Phases, Six Steps) method offered in the theory. The finding in the field found that the traditional toys material used in Klaten and Magelang, mostly made from waste wood, plywood, and zinc. The manufacturing process is done manually by two or three craftsmen using a simple technology. The traditional toys are designed by the artisans mostly, although there may be designs from the clients. In addition, we also found that the traditional toys have never been used as a Batik motif. The traditional toys Batik motif presented in this work is researcher’s design. For the purposes of this study, we first research the variety of traditional toys available in the market today in Indonesia. We look into the process of creating these toys. Finally, we develop our own designs with the idea that these designs can be used in the creative industries, particularly in the business of batik.</p><p> </p>
Highlights
There is a wide variety of traditional toys in Indonesia
This study aims to identify the array of of traditional toys which can be used as Batik motifs and how to create Batik motifs based on traditional toys
The following study designed new batik motifs on the basis of the data obtained from our research on traditional toys in the area of Central Java, Indonesia
Summary
There is a wide variety of traditional toys in Indonesia. In the province of Central Java, traditional toys take the shape of household appliances (traditional cookware, dining sets), modes of transportation (bicycle, motorbike, pedicab, car, truck, aeroplane, train, chart horse, and bus), animals (bird, duck, goose, horse and monkey). There are other toys, such as umbul wayang (wayang cards made from paper), kuda lumping (play horse that is used for a jathilan dance), paper puppets, gasing or gangsingan (a yoyo-like toy made from bamboo), ethek – ethek (wooden noise maker), dakon (mancala), and kites. These traditional toys can be classified into two-dimensional and three-dimensional toys. They can be made from clay, wood, plywood, bamboo, tin, hard sponge and paper. All materials that are used in the production of these toys are a waste material that can be obtained by crafters in the surrounding neighborhoods or in other areas close-by
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