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 ...

The women of Guizhou have turned their traditional batik dyeing and embroidery techniques into a source of income. Li Jun and Zhao Kai report from Guiyang. Cai Qun draws pattens for a batik design at ...

A visual expression of happiness in fabric form, tie-dye, in all of its Technicolor glory, is the kind of mood boost we need now—particularly as we’ve been stuck in the same-old confines of home.

Eleanor Kuhns' love for batik is actually wrapped in a quilt. Kuhns, a quilter, is always in search of the perfect shade of a color, so she started dyeing her own fabric. Batik (bah-TEEK') uses melted ...

Nearly seven years after the traditional dyeing technique of batik was included on UNESCO’s list of items of intangible cultural heritage, the artisans still have a battle on their hands. The influx ...

The National Taiwan Museum in Taipei buzzed with traditional Indonesian music yesterday as it staged batik and songket festivals, events dedicated to celebrating and promoting artistic traditions from ...

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A two day course on Batik, an ancient fabric dyeing technique which uses wax on cloth, takes place on Saturday and Sunday in Creative Spark. Tunde Toth will show different ways of using wax ...

Cai Qun draws patterns for a batik design at her workshop at Dazhai village, Zhijin county in Guizhou province. [Photo by Zeng Jun / for China Daily] The women of Guizhou have turned their traditional ...

Learn the art of Batik in this 2 1/2 hour workshop. Batik, originating from Java, Indonesia, is a technique of wax-resist dyeing. The name stems from the Javanese word tik, meaning to dot. The process ...