Penerapan Motif Batik Pesisir Utara Jawa pada Perhiasan Logam (Studi Kasus: Warak Ngendog)

Abstract

— Jewelry has been known to humans since prehistoric times made of rocks and animal bones. Jewelry not only has an aesthetic function, but also a social status for the wearer. Along with the development of human civilization, jewelry processing technology has also progressed in terms of manufacture, one of them being the discovery of metalworking techniques. One of the developed metalworking techniques and widely used by metal jewelry craftsmen is electroplating or gilding techniques. Through this article, we will describe the design of metal jewelry combined with the application of several North Coast Java batik motifs, one of them are Batik Semarang, namely Warak Ngendog motifs, as a culture result of Javanese, Chinese, and Arabic acculturation through the depiction of mythological animals as symbols of harmony according to Semarang’s people beliefs. The main jewelry material used is copper due to its electroplating reactivity. The metal processing technique with the electroplating method was chosen because this technique has been widely used in the metal craft industry, especially jewelry in Indonesia. The research method is descriptive experimental through electroplating technique experiments on copper accompanied by a structured identification and documentation process. The final result of this experiment is a set of jewelry products with the application of the Warak Ngendog motif in the form of earrings, bracelets, and necklace pendants.