Selecting the right natural dye is critical for vibrant batik designs. Plants like indigo, turmeric, and hibiscus are popular ...

The batik process involves applying wax on fabric where you do not want dye to penetrate. Once the wax cools, you can dye the fabric in different colors.

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 ...

JAKARTA -- If I had to choose a favorite textile, and a favorite place to admire its infinite forms, it would be Indonesia's traditional batik in Thamrin City, a windowless multilevel market in the ...

enowned designer Edward Hutabarat once likened batik to “a beautiful remnant of a civilization” and called it the textile of Indonesian culture. “The batik industry has been developing well in the ...

Zaky, an employee for a tax-consultant office in Jakarta’s central business district, admits to wearing batik for its functionality, “On Fridays, the office gives us an option to wear batik or a short ...

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 ...

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia — Hadi Suwito quietly sits at his desk to oversee the daily operations of Batik Plentong, one of Yogyakarta’s surviving manufacturers of traditional batik textile. On the wall ...

For many tourists in Indonesia, the brightly-coloured, patterned shirts adorning shop windows are merely souvenirs – a novel reminder of a trip to an exotic location. For Astri Astariani, however, the ...

Welcome to the 345th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, Adam de Boer fashions lush scenes on canvas using Indonesian batik-dyed ...