Silver Handmade Kotagede - Yogyakarta - Visit Indonesia

The presence of silver craftsmen appear along with the birth of Mataram Kingdom, Kotagede is an area where the former capital of Mataram Kingdom which was founded by Panembahan Senopati. The development of silver Kotagede not be separated also from the Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) that go to Yogyakarta around the 16th century. At that time, many traders are ordering VOC household appliances from gold, silver, copper and brass to a population of approximately Kotagede. Until now, people in the region Kotagede still many who work as craftsmen. Some of them work as craftsmen of gold, silver, copper, brass, horns and many others. Over time, silver became the most sought after product so many craftsmen who choose to become a silversmith and silver in its development characterizes the area Kotagede.

Silver craft and shop in the town can be easily met along the road. Generaly, the craftman have a show room to display their silver products. One of the center showroom located on the main street Kotagede.There are about 40 showrooms or stores of silver on a small scale, medium and large. Not just along the road Packaging showroom you can visit alone, as many silver craftsmen are located within the township one of them is in Basen village. It has many tourist village silver smith with a diversity of silver and of course if you buy the product directly to the artisans, a more economical price can be found. Basen Tourism Village is located in RW 04, sub Purbayan, Kotagede.

Types of silver are sold in the region Kotagede diverse, mostly selling silver type the numbers 925 means 925 indicates the percentage content of silver in it. 925 means 92.5% silver + 7.5% copper, because if you made 100% pure silver is too soft. Copper as a mixture of materials that could be more robust silver metal is processed into jewelry. Silver has a pure silver levels ranging from 999, 925, 850, 835, 825, and 800. For silver with 800 purity levels will be faster black (oxidized) than the silver with 925 purity tigkat. That's why rarely found silver jewelry stamped with 800.

The silver is purely made by hand, without relying on the machine. From the beginning to the end of the process done by hand. Craft is what is the origin of the silver industry in the town of Yogyakarta and even silver even today in the town is still dominated handmade crafts (handmade).