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You find crazy quilt patterns, checkered and round patterns, intersecting circles, ovals, rosette shapes, stars, rhombuses, wavy lines, S-like flourishes, swastikas, bird tails or wings. Even partly completed batik, just a cream or white background with some unfinished patterns, is very striking. Sometimes the waxed cloth is crackled by hand to create a shattered effect. In the Central Javanese sultanates certain patterns reflect the position of the wearer. Court officials, bridal couples and important people wear a special sarung (dodot) which is much larger than that worn by ordinary people. It usually has an overall pattern or is divided in sections showing a double row of triangular designs, symbolic of fertility (tumpal).