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| Pak Santosa’s grandmother, R.Ngt. Wongsodinomo, sittinggraciously on the far right, discusses batik with a client, amidst | piles of batiks. In her day, there was a certain style to sellingbatiks, in which transactions were made with grace and dignity. |
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| Danarsih (2nd from right) and her sister (right) and customers in early 1970, discussing the batiks folded on the table. It was still the custom to sell batik in this informal way, either the customers | coming to the house where there were batiks to be sold or the seller taking her wares to the customers. Friends were an important part of the network. |
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| Like most, if not all, batik enterprises in Indonesia, Batik Danar Hadi can trace its history to a home industry and is a classic success story owed to a mixture of birthright, hard work, foresight, and good fortune. Both its founders, Santosa Doellah and his wife Danarsih Hadipriyono, are the descendants of a founder of the Batik Bond that was aimed at breaking the unfavorable monopoly on trade in raw | materials for the batik industry. In this, he was following in the footsteps of his father, Haji Bakri, who had been influential in establishing the Sarekat Dagang Islam (Muslim Trading Association) in 1912, together with the legendary nationalist Haji Samanhudi, a neighboring batik entrepreneur in Laweyan. |
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| The new showrooms on Jalan Slamet Riyadi, Solo. Annexed to the Wuryaningratan and joined to it by a covered walkway. Here, the | décor is rather Spartan, so as not to detract from the beauty of the Batiks on sale. |
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BATIK IS NOT JUST AN ART OF DESIGN
| The new showrooms on Jalan Slamet Riyadi, Solo. Annexed to the Wuryaningratan and joined to it by a covered walkway. Here, the | décor is rather Spartan, so as not to detract from the beauty of the Batiks on sale. |
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| The very elegant interior of Danar Hadi’s shop on Jalan Melawai in Jakarta after serious renovation in the 1990s, establishing | Danar Hadi’s new trademark-style. Combining batik with palatial Javanese interior decor. |
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| Danar Hadi distributes ready-made products to customers through our continuously expanding network of domestic retail shops, as well as through established up-market department stores including well- | known foreign retailers such as Sogo, Seibu and Seiyu. We also accept custom manufacturing and design orders through our head office. Please contact us to find out how we may assist you further. |
