PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Batik is a 2000-year-old clothes dyeing technique that uses wax to coat the parts of the fabric you don’t want to dye. Now the Portland Fashion Institute is working to teach a ...
It is early morning in Giriloyo, Yogyakarta, and a group of women are busy drawing motifs on white cloth in an open gazebo. Next to them are buckets of liquid wax that they will melt on a small stove ...
Mon, March 20, 2017 Published on Mar. 14, 2017 Published on 2017-03-14T16:20:22+07:00 n old European-Javanese building situated on Jl. Slamet Riyadi in Surakarta, Central Java, houses more than 10,000 ...
In the eyes of many, fabric scraps are merely leftover pieces of textiles with little value. In reality, these remnants can ...
Beautiful, handcrafted fabrics collected by President Obama's mother are on display at the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. The late Ann Dunham began purchasing the hand-dyed textiles when she lived ...
Reviving the art of Batik in Egypt is artist Samar Hassanein’s passion as well as her full-time job “The things I like most about Batik are its natural beauty and bright colours and the fact that each ...
Batik-making not only promotes an intangible cultural heritage among younger Indonesians, it also serves as a therapeutic intervention and potential source of income for children with developmental ...
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