Batik pattern: Rujak sente

The name of this patched pattern is Rujak sente ('salad of unripe sente tubers' (Alocasia macrorhiza Achott)). The pattern consists of eight slanted white bands filled with parang (machete) dots, leaf tendrils or vertical stripes and incidentally a number of slanted bands on a blue background, filled with flowers, zigzag stripes, circles in diamonds and so on. The border is called Untu walang (int…