The story of Queen Tribhuwana Wijayatunggadewi As Source of Ideas for Designing Majapahit Batik Motifs

Abstract

Queen Tribhuwana Wijayatunggadewi was one of the leading female rulers and played
a significant role in organizing and expanding Majapahit's territory. This research aims
to find out 1) the process of designing Majapahit batik motifs with the source of ideas
from the story of Ratu Tribhuwana Wijayatunggadewi, 2) the resulting Majapahit batik
motifs with the source of ideas from Queen Tribhuwana Wijayatunggadewi. The method
used is the Double Diamond Model which consists of 4 stages, namely discover, define,
develop and deliver. In the initial stage, summarize the sources of ideas to create a
moodboard with a predetermined theme which leads to batik motif designs. The second
stage is developing a moodboard that has been made into several stylizations. The third
stage is arranging the stylization into 6 batik motif developments. The fourth stage is the
process of producing a prototype of one of the Majapahit batik designs with the source
of the idea being Queen Tribhuwana Wijayatunggadewi. This research produced 6 batik
motif designs for the story of Queen Tribhuwana Wijayatunggadewi, and of these 6
designs, 1 design was selected which was realized in the form of batik cloth with the story
motif of Queen Tribhuwana Wijayatunggadewi with a cloth size of 200 x 115 cm.