Batik design style fabrics have been around for years and were a popular pattern for clothes in the 70s. As with most craft trends, this one is coming back around again and batik print fabrics are ...

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Learn to create batik on Japanese paper using soy wax, an unscented biodegradable wax. Traditionally batik is a technique that uses hot wax as a resist to mask out patterns on textile before applying ...

Celebrated by designers, tastemakers, and pattern-lovers for centuries, batik is both a type of fabric and an ancient dyeing technique with a long and complicated history. Often grouped with other ...

Zhang Juanjuan hangs batik products on the roof of the community building in Anshun, Southwest China's Guizhou province on Aug 18, 2022. [Photo/Xinhua] Zhang Juanjuan, a member of Miao ethnic group, ...

Obin opened Bin House in 1986 in an upscale neighbourhood in Jakarta Walk into any fancy soiree in Jakarta and you are as likely to find an Obin batik shawl as an Hermes handbag. The former may not be ...

Walk into any fancy soiree in Jakarta and you are as likely to find an Obin batik shawl as an Hermes handbag. The former may not be familiar to those outside Indonesia but if anyone could change that, ...