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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Batik, a painting technique that uses wax and dye, is a long and labor-intensive process. As a result, the traditional Indonesian art form is struggling for survival. An engineer is hoping to change ...

Resist-dyeing comes in many forms, from Indonesia’s wax-driven batik to the American tradition of tie-dye. In Japan, the prevailing resist-dyeing method is called shibori, which means “to wring” or ...

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 ...

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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 ...