Had a lot of fun reading & looking at picture to prepare myself for my journey.
From top to bottom:
– ‘Indonesia / The Discovery of the Past’, gift from Susan. A book full wonderful things with a colonial past.
– ‘Bloemen van het heelal, De kleurrijke wereld van de textiel op Java’ by Alit Veldhuisen-Djajasoebrata. The book about batik on Java! (so I’m told)
– ‘Batik, Creating an identity’. My first Batik book, about social and cultural meaning of Batiks in Indonesia and Singapore.
– ‘Papaver in de bergen’ by Alice M. Ekert Rotholz
– ‘Rijst uit zilveren schalen’ by Alice M. Ekert Rotholz. The story takes place after the war in Asia.
– ‘Waar tranen verboden zijn’ by Alice M. Ekert Rotholz. The story tells from different cultures how they experienced the second world war.
– ‘Uitgesproken Indonesisch’ by Harmani Jeanne Ham.
– ‘Indonesisch voor beginners’ by Harmani Jeanne Ham.
– ‘Guide to Java’, travelbook from the 70’s bought at an secondhand shop. In it an instruction paper about how Batik is created, in 8 steps on pieces of cotton, from a Batikworkshop in Yogyakarta. The previous owner left in in the book.
– ‘Indonesische sprookjes’, Indonesian fairy tales.
– ‘Indonesië Reisverhalen’, Indonesian travel-stories from 1700 till now.
– ‘Indonesische volksgebruiken’, small book about different rituals & tips
– and not on the photo a small dictionary to take with me.