The craft of batik Indramayu Dermayon local culture that is an integral part of Indonesian culture repertoire . As the local culture , Batik Dermayon been created and developed by the women pekriya living in the North coast of Indramayu . The women Indramayu revealed various pictures or meaningful decorative motifs . This study managed to find matter and form the decorative motifs of batik Dermayon ( as a signifier ) , as well as its content ( the signified) as the meaning of aesthetic expression pekriya women in Indramayu Regency Village Paoman . There are four important as a synthesis of the findings of this study . Dermayon motif in general is a reflection of women's lives to the natural environment , social and cultural . Second , women have the freedom pekriya batik Indramayu in attitude and action, but as a fisherman 's wife as well as controllers responsible for life on land ( while husband more life in the ocean ) . Therefore tiu , behind the softness and beauty of women there Indramayu power of life and independence . Third, decorative motifs of batik as a marker Dermayon messages express the harmony and balance of life in nature. Qualitative research methodology used to explore and understand the concepts of aesthetic quality of the aesthetic and semiotic approaches .
Keywords :
Motif , batik Dermayon , matter , form , signifier , the signified , expression , female , aesthetic , semiotic