DISSEMINATION OF COLORING TECHNOLOGY WITH NATURAL DYES ON HANDCRAFTED BATIK

Abstract

Handcrafted “Batik Sidomulyo” is an agro industrial development as an attempted agroindustrial support in Sidomulyo Flower Resort Village that adopted ornamental plants, flowers and local wisdom themed batik motifs for supporting tourism potentials. In 2020, SMEs “Batik Sidomulyo” have been facilitated with Mini Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) so it could decrease difficulties in coloring and liquid waste disposal. These MSMEs have limited technology in the natural coloring production process and coloring. Use of natural coloring is beneficial in color innovation and creation of batik’s quality. The objective of this study is for determining the effectiveness of efficacy in the dissemination of natural coloring production technology and coloring process with natural substance on batik. The implementation method through technical counseling and dissemination about natural coloring production technology that utilises local wisdom such as “secang” and “tingi” wood (red color), jackfruit wood and “jelawe” (yellow color) and nila/indigo leaf (blue color). Using natural coloring proved to be effective in increasing the competitiveness of handcrafted market. Implementation of activities involves practitioners from SMEs handcrafted from Trenggalek that organised training as well as mentoring on natural coloring producing process and coloring process until batik finishing process for 5 days. The efficiency level of technology dissemination are the knowledge and skills improvement of handcrafted batik so could produce natural coloring independently as well as to improve the quality of the handcrafted that have the competitiveness as one of the travel souvenirs.