It may be said that batik is an art from which developed in Java, specifically Central Java. This statement pertains to the method of batiking, the ornamentation itself developed as a harmonization of various influences exerted by other cultures. What is batik ? Batik is a drawing or a painting or a form of writing on cotton cloth, applied with the aid of a tool called canting. Drawing or painting or writing onto the cotton cloth by an artist or artisan is termed membatik, or in English batiking. Batiking produces batik in the form of various motifs which have specific characteristics which are passed onto the batik cloth. Through further deveploment, other tools have come into existence facilitating the batik process, for example the cap or printing batik. Such block-printing produces motifs identical to batik, but the resultant fabrics are, in reality, no longer batik. The quality of decorated with batik-like motifs cannot possibly be compared to that of a true batik. Nevertheless, today both are called batik by the public or large. To differentiate between the two, the designations “written” batik and “blocked” batik are used. Parallel to development in modern technology, the method of batiking has been streamlined. The new technique produces a cloth ornamented like batik. However, since the product is no longer batik, it is more appropriate to call it batik-motifed cloth. Finally, artists are incorporating batik ornamentation and batiking in their work. The results are called batik paintings. With this brief explanation, are should now be able to distinguish between batik and that which is not batik.