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Wax resist dyeing technique in fabric is an ancient art form. Discoveries show it already existed in Egypt in the 4th century BCE, where it was used to wrap mummies; linen was soaked in wax, and scratched using a sharp tool. In Asia, the technique was practiced in China during the T’ang dynasty (618-907 CE), [...]

JAKARTA — Indonesia’s president is pressing the country’s 234 million people to wear batik clothes to celebrate a triumph over neighbour Malaysia in a poisonous feud over cultural heritage. The UN cultural organisation UNESCO is set this week to add Indonesia’s method of making the cloth — through a laborious process of wax-dipping and dying [...]

You can batik silk, cotton, and rayon with the same easy fiber reactive dye and soda ash recipe that is so popular in other forms of hand dyeing. The advantage of this type of dye is that with it, unlike all purpose dye, you can use cool water (that won’t melt wax!), while unlike naphthol [...]

Blue Bird transport companies will replace their driver’s uniform with batik. During this time, the driver’s uniform group “blue bird” was a blue shirt with the logo of the Blue Bird. With this new uniform, are expected to Blue Bird driver may act as an ambassador of tourism. Thus expressed Vice President of Business Development [...]

Batik designs or the creation of batiks, can be divided into the three main types of batik, namely “batik tulis”, “batik cap” and “batik ikat”. Each has variations in techniques and the level of expertise needed, and thus reflect a different kind of design creativity. Batik-designs centres of the past include the cities of Lasem, [...]

Batik in Papua during this most famous of Asmat batik motifs. Color is brown with the collaboration of the land and terracotta colors. Problem selection of batik Papua many uses simbol Papua sacred and unique carvings. Lizard or crocodile is one of them and of course great circles.

Generally, batik cloth jogja have traits of color fabric itself. Batik jogja uses white cloth with complexion black. One example is batik grompol.

Color batik Padang mostly black, yellow, red, purple. The pattern Banyumasan, Indramayuan, Solo, Yogya.

Typical motif in Banten is a motifs datulaya, base rhomboid-shaped flowers and circles in tendrils leaf textures with a blue base color, pattern variation in textures tendrils of gray leaf at the base of yellow cloth.

Primary color of red cloth, yellow, purple, blue, green, orange and soga. And the color is bright but still a classic with a blue dominance. Batik Sukapura: distinctively red, black, brown. Motive was thick with the feel of Parahyangan like orchids and birds, besides there is also a motive Merak-ngibing, Cala-culu, Pisang-bali, Sapujagat, Awi Ngarambat [...]