Inventory On Motif Of Traditional Batik Tulis Gedhog Of Kerek Community, Tuban Sub District, East Java: Proceeding The 3rd Bandung Creative Movement (BCM) 2016

Kerek, in Tuban Sub District, East Java is an area of typical field farmer community which has a tradition on making traditional weaving fabric named gedhog, which thereafter decorated uses batik tulis technique. Every sheet of the fabric has its uniqueness of which distinguishes the fabric with fabric from other areas of Indonesia. Looking at to its characteristic, this fabric of Kerek community apparently is a cultural artifact represents value and meaning towards the culture through its visualization it is shown. The aesthetics shown on the batik fabric specifically relate closely to the community\u27s knowledge on cosmological and aesthetical concepts. Therefore, through art and design disciplines approach, by using visual morphology method, meanings contained in a sheet of fabric will be explained through a set of studies on its visual elements such as: motif, decorations, composition, and color. Data collection focuses on visual material, and object. Thus, it is expected that this inventory will be able to classify traditional motif on batik tulis gedhog along with the meaning contained in it, to enable future motif development to refer to the original motif on this classification, that has been long clinging among Kerek community. Keywords: Gedhogan, Inventory, Kerek District, Motif, Bati