Made in Jepara
// September 3rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Jalan-jalan
Jepara known since 618-906 A.D, Chinese wayfarer named I-Tsing from Tang dynasty was landed in a land called Holing or Kaling, witches one of Jepara sub-district. In the XV century jepara became small harbor trader, populated 99-100 people. Under the Raj Queen Kalinyamat , Jepara trade seaport grow rapidly and busy. Jepara not only as a main trade seaport in the java island but also supply export and import goodies. beside that it was the first naval base for Demak kingdom. Sculpture blooming at the time and people eke out a living from sculpture. Jepara engraving is an assimilation from Majapahit kingdom fretwork and Patih Badarduwung fretwork whose came from china. Caracteristic jepara engraving seen from the shape of leaf fretwork witchis design is trihedron and sideways. These caracteristic similiar with baroque style triving in Jerman, Holland, and Italy. The earmark jepara fretwork are the leaf, flower and fruit, and the fragment. The leaf design is form a circle and its niche. at the and of 
niche design can be found a bunch of leaf. Flower and fruit design are convex (roundness) like a line up grape fruit. The flower made at the confluence of niche angle. the flower shape folowing the leaf design. The fragment design, fragment line direction folowing the leaf shape, alike a beam. If Europe have barok design Indonesia have Jepara design.
