JOURNAL

Romanticizing East Indies Through Prints

How would you imagine the East Indies in the 17th and 18th century? How would you know that it’s oh so mooi*? *mooi: beautiful If you were a Dutch...

Love Letter: On Women

75% of our employees are women. From our office cook, seamstress, designers, accountant, book-keeper, to our creative director, you can see women s...

Main Kain: A Guide to Wear Kain Batik

Today, wearing Kain Batik is not just a matter of formality, but also a pride of being Indonesian. It’s wearing your heart on your sleeves, literal...

How to Pull-Off Batik Shirt

As trends go, there’s something that keeps redefining itself without losing its form. By “it”, we mean Shirts; Batik Shirts. Pants could always ste...

From North China to Batavia: Unwrapping Pottery

In this beginning of the year of Ox, we traced back what remains in Indonesia related to China. As early as the Han period, around 202 BC, merchant...

Jali-Jali: CNY-Approved Outfit!

When the moon is full and the rain is drenching, that marks the beginning of spring and the beginning of New Year based on the moon calendar. For m...

The Charm of Lasem

In 14th century, this port town was a city bustling with opium, kampongs of immigrants from Champa, India, and Southern China, and white colored ho...

On Hope and Openings

Ah, what’s new this year? Another year of pandemic, another time of other celebrations through zoom, and another bunch of food delivery orders? Exa...

The Time We Shared (and the bond in between)

When two worlds meet, something new is born. The old world meets the new world. The classic meets the modern. The wisdom meets the innovation. Like...

Looking Back to Rediscover Further

It’s hard to define this year. Too many words needed to fill the whole sentence. Fun, difficult, hard, trying hard not to give up, struggling, expe...

Gift Ideas from Pithe Team: Antiques to Everyday-Stylish

The celebrating season is right here! Starting this week, we’ll have Christmas, New Year, and Chinese New Year cherished all over the world. For t...

Rest to Reset

As unbelievable as it seems, we are about to begin another year. Before we even start to plan anything, maybe the plan is to do nothing and to plan...