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Making Batik

Making Batik By Daniel Shilson Traditional hand-crafted batik or batik tulis uses cotton or silk. Good quality, densely woven fabrics work best as the wax adheres more closely to the fibres. The material to be used is washed and boiled number of times in water to remove all traces of starch and sizing substances such as lime or chalk. Traditionally the cloth would be pounded or ironed to make it smoother and easier to receive the wax, although in modern times higher quality machine-made cloth makes this step unnecessary. The cloth is usually...

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Silk Painting Resists - Wax (Batik) and Gutta (batik tenun)

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History of Batik

History of Batik By Daniel Shilson Using wax as the resist method for dyeing cloth is an ancient practice. Archaeological excavations in Egypt have uncovered samples of linen covered in wax and patterned with a sharp tool used to wrap mummies dating from the 4th century BCE. Evidence of wax-resist dyeing methods has been found in China, India, Japan and West Africa from the 6th and 7th centuries CE. The history of batik production in Indonesia predates written records causing disagreement between historians as to the precise origins of batik...

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Batik Fabric Production - The Old Is New Again

Batik Fabric Production - The Old Is New Again By Sew Batik Introduction If you are passionate about textiles with exotic color and texture the chances are good you have a special love for batiks. It's easy to be captivated by these stunning color-saturated marvels. While there always seems to be a place in a batik lover's stash for a new "Bali" few of us know much about the fascinating, time-honored processes that are used to make our batik fabrics. In order to discover where the batiks in our local fabric store come from, let's take a virtual...

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Batik's Cultural Influence

Batik's Cultural Influence By Daniel Shilson Although batik is produced in other parts of the world, Indonesia can be considered its spiritual home and where the art form has been developed to the greatest level of sophistication. Batik cloth is probably Indonesia's most famous artistic and cultural legacy and was recognized by UNESCO in 2009 as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity; an award that reflects the continuing importance that batik plays in the cultural life of the Indonesian people.Batik in Indonesia plays many roles:...

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An Introduction To Batik

An Introduction To Batik By Daniel Shilson Nelson Mandela is often seen wearing an intricately patterned shirt in vivid colors. Most people probably assume this is a tribal design using an age-old African method of dyeing cloth. In fact, the shirts Mandela proudly sports have their origins halfway across the world, on the islands of the Malay archipelago, where the cloth is known as batik. The tradition of producing batik cloth was brought to South Africa by Javanese laborers forcibly transported by the Dutch East India Company to the Western...

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Batik Industry Embraces Modernization

Batik Industry Embraces Modernization By Jackson Paterson No trip to Malaysia is complete without a visit to the Batik Factories and breaking your head over what to buy from the resplendent array of batik work products. Batik is an art practiced in many countries in Asia where wax is used to draw a design on cloth; the fabric is dyed in various bright colors that are not absorbed by the wax filled designs alone. Later this wax is removed using a solvent or by ironing it out. But this is not all! There's much more to this art that makes it a national...

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Types of Batik

Types of Batik By Daniel Shilson The art of decorating cloth using wax and dye is an age-old tradition and has been discovered in many parts of the world. However, the development of the technique to the highly sophisticated and intricate form known as batik first took place on the island of Java, principally in and around the royal cities of Yogyakarta and Surakarta (usually known as Solo). There are batik-making traditions in many parts of Indonesia and further afield, but Javanese batik is the quintessential example of the form.The oldest...

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Batik - An Identity of Indonesia

Batik - An Identity of Indonesia By Blaine F Johnston Indonesia is a multicultural country which consists of thousand islands and tribes. The differences of demography and geography cause cultural differences, including the outfits worn by each tribe. Batik is one of the outfits that are quite popular, and its popularity has been known worldwide.If you watch TV and see the President of Indonesia talking in public or in international conferences, you may see him wearing such an ethnic shirt with unique motifs. That is what so called batik, the...

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