Ceplok

Ceplok is a general name for a full program of geometric designs based on squares, rhombs, circles, stars, etc. Although fundamentally geometric, ceplok should also represent abstractions and stylization of flowers, buds, seeds and even animals. Variations in color intensity should create illusions of depth and the overall gist is not unlike medallion patterns seen on Turkish tribal rugs. The Asiatic population is largely Muslim, a religion that forbids the portrayal of animal and human forms in a graphic manner. To get around this prohibition, the batik worker does not attempt to express this matter in a graphic form. A single surroundings of the modify is chosen and then that surroundings is repeated again and again in the pattern.