Cukil wood (xylography) artists from Kendal, Central Java, Indonesia

Cukil wood / woodcut is often referred to as xilografi (xylography), as the earliest technical graphics, has long been abandoned although still quite useful for some cultures, given the advantages that are beneficial to the struggles in certain circumstances.

This relief printing techniques produce images or written through the printing process using a surface sheet or sheets of wood-carved linoleum or inlaid dicukil use as a printer after spiked with paint or dye on fabric or paper slightly moistened.

If you want to use color combinations, then we must use different molds for each color used. This printing technique in contrast to intaglio printing techniques and etching (etching) is precisely the part that holds the ink is then scratched dicetakkan on paper.The technique is wooden cukil in China have been used to print images and writings since the 5th century. while this technique was developed in Europe around the year 1400an to similar techniques dimassalkan by Gutenberg.

In Japan cukil wood known as Ukiyo-e, had experienced a golden age in the Edo period (1600-1868 AD). Molds in the form of fiction that many of the world bersubyekkan Geisha and prostitution are rampant in Japan during the feudal period.

With the Meiji Restoration, in response to pressure Commodore Perry with the American delegation in Tanagawa agreement in 1854 to open markets as well as civilization. Thereafter, the interprenur western art tradition has brought Japan to the western world, especially to Paris.

Upon their arrival, the products of art and culture, including traditional wood cukil flooded the western world, especially Paris the center of the art at that time. homage to the painter as well as post-impressionism Impresionist troop to use the spirit, technique or effect of Ukiyo-e techniques in the work.

In Europe there are many pekarya are using this medium to express the views of social work and politics. Kathe Kolwitz call it that is so touching in describing the political upheaval in the future and where he stood.

While in Indonesia cukil mushrooming wood as a tool to capture reality. The use of wood cukil media never reached its golden ages when the media is carried by the Institute for Cultural Democracy Taring Padi students based ISI (Institut Seni Indonesia). (Wood Ukil Propaganda Media Democracy. Www.concern.net)

Cukil shirts and Market Prospects of Small Industries

  Cukil art, according to my version is the art of carving board with cukil tools. Please see the history of art cukil. This type of art is widely utilized to generate beberepa products, such as manual screen printing and painting with cukil method. Menyablon cukil method is actually quite easy. The resulting product was quite interesting, varied and distinctive. One product of this method is screen printing T-shirts and Emblem cukil cukil. Making process is very easy, you simply follow the steps below

 

1. Master on the board making process hardboard (you draw whatever you like on the board using cukil) 

2. After you successfully create a master, the master will be cleaned, then painted with a paint stencil using a rubber roll.

3. After wrapping, the master board to attach the T-shirt or a badge that will be on screen printing.
 
4. In order, the paint is absorbed by the flat, you need to hit the board ari. usually done by treading the boards until blended
 
5.  After that, t-shirts or patches can be drying / dianginkan screen printing ink to dry

Quite easy is not it?

Like the above method is widely used by communities of young people like Punk, Underground, etc. to produce t-shirts or a personal emblem. With this cukil method, you can embed your idealism in every T-shirt or badge which you will use. In addition, if the designs and drawings that you create can attract other people, you can double screen printing for commercial purposes.

A master can only survive for hundreds of shirts or emblem. If cared for properly, the master timber may be used as long to production.

Well how does the market prospects in the industry today?
cukil shirts

This adult t-shirt industry market is dominated by the manufacturer. T-shirts in several cities of the market, especially in domination by Distro-distro. Most of these shirts are included in the price category of medium-high for the general public.

Cukil shirt has the advantage to compete, although admittedly only cukil shirts favored certain circles. As artists, students, street children, and young left-wing movement. These advantages include:

      Penyablonan, in the stampede and the tap-tap to the average and maximum screen printing

    1. Flavor of higher art t-shirt screen printing manufacturer in the appeal

     2. Usually the more outstanding, an image that depicts the social activities or social protest

     3. The words most commonly used tone of social protest, but this depends on your taste

    4.  More populist and affordable, easy on the production, and cheap

Meanwhile, there are also some drawbacks that cause people are reluctant to start the industry in this area, including:

Cukil shirt using only one color per menyablon, if more than one color require more elaborate techniques

    1.  Manual production of more strenuous than using machines

     2. Its market share has not been tested and stable

     3. not everyone can use a tool cukil well to make the image / words he wanted

    4.  At least a master maker should be able to practice the basic concepts of dimension in carve / cukil

Words or images suggestive of social protest that is used in the propaganda goes cukil shirts. Over the shirt is worn everywhere, lets not mean you convey your heart and your mind about what you write or draw on your shirt. This propaganda may be able to influence people who read it.

One of the developers in the city of kendal cukil screen printing is the Angga aka Denggek Maki Angin Pagi (fb user: red).

He is an artist member of the organizations BPK Oi Kendal. Initially he learned later from cultivated and popularized by him through the workshops he is doing well in school and in the streets.
 

And unexpectedly at Jamnas Oi to 4 in Jepara, antlers in the good fortune to be the star product advertisements TOP coffee is the main sponsor of the concert Iwan Fals. Hopefully it can boost cukil art that has been used since, as well as improve the welfare of the creator.