THE STORY HAS BEGAN
Ulur Wiji was founded as a social entrepreneur in eco-fashion creative/environmentally friendly fashion, and our products are handcrafted with hope and love in mind. These are small steps we take to make more significant life changes.
Ulur Wiji focuses on three central values: our mission to preserve batik (Tulis, Cap, and Jumputan styles), environmentally friendly products made from only fabrics and natural dyes from plants, and youth empowerment by providing opportunities for Pandankrajan Village youth to work together.
We also have a motto, “Dari Desa Bisa Berdaya” (or Empower the Village), and we showed that the work of young people in the village could reach the world. Being in the village does not impede creating work and being empowered.
Thank you for your interest in Ulur Wiji. Show your support for Indonesian culture, the environment, and rural youth empowerment by wearing #IWEARULURWIJI!
– Nasta & Joko –
Founder Ulur Wiji
OUR VALUE
Preserving Culture
We all know that batik (hand-drawn, stamped, and tie dye) is one of our Identity as Indonesian. So, as youth we has responsibility to love our culture. We has goal that batik not just for formal event, but also very suitable to relaxing moment.
Eco-friendly Product
We concern about environment in two things. First about material, we only using natural material from plant. Fabric that we used like rayon, tencel, catoon, linen etc wich form natural fiber. Second, about our process, we try to reduce water in our process, and we use water treatment so it safe for the environment
Youth Empowerment
All of our artisans is the youth from Pandankrajan Village Mojokerto. We has a dream that craft from their hands can reach the world. Youth from village has same opportunity to success and be empowered.
Our ARTISANS
Why work with ulur wiji?
Expert in Eco-Fashion
We started Ulur Wiji since 2020, for the past two years, we have focused on doing research on batik (hand-drawn batik, stamped batik, tie dye) and also about Natural dye. We always try to explore new colour from local plant.
Ethical Process
We concern about our sustainability environment. One of our reason to build Ulur Wiji is anxiety about waste of fashion industry, so we make sure that our process right now must be has good impact to our environment. We has commitment to only use natural material, so they can be biodegradable faster.
Contemporer Design
Our batik is special, we has contemporer design. We know, that all this time batik means oldiest, and traditional. Ulur Wiji bring batik as modern motif with simple and timeless design. So we are confident to use batik as formal or informal event.
OUR FABRIC
Cotton
Cotton fabric made from cotton fiber. Cotton that we usually used is
Oeko Tex Cotton
Organic (GOTS) Cotton
Primisima Cotton
Rayon
Rayon made by selulosa of pine, hemlock, and spruce. Rayon that usually we used is
Rayon By Lenzing
Rayon Ecovero
Rayo By Livaeco
Cotton Rayon By Asia Pacific Rayon
Tencel
Tencel made from eucalyptus woods. Tencel that we used usually is silky tencel by Lenzing
tencel linen by Lakumas.
Linen
Linen made from flax. Linen fabric that we used usually is
Tencel linen by Lakumas
Silk
Silk made from cocoon, we used several silk from any certified vendor
OUR COLOUR
We commited to only use natural dye to all of our product. It one of value Ulur Wiji. This is several colour that usualy used to our colour
Indigofera
We has magnificent blue colour from indigofera leaf. From this leaf can make blue sky colour, indigo, navy, and black.
Jolawe Fruit
Jolawe fruit to make yellow color. With this colour we can make green/ pine colour with mix with indigofera.
Mahogany
Many people plant mahogany tree in their field. This tree usually used as a furniture material. Usually the bark is left alone as firewood.
Mahogany bark can brown to red colour.
Tingi
The colour comes from tingi bark is similiar with mahogany. the different is tingi bark more red and darker than mahogany.
Tegeran
Tegeran produce yellow colour like jolawe but the colour is lighter. The colour from tegeran usually mix with tingi and jambal to get orange colour.
Palm Leaf
Who know that palm leaf can produce colour to fabric. The colour come from this leaf is brown untill orange. We need to leaves this colour solution for 2-3 days to get this colour.
OUR ACHIEVEMENT
