BATIK COLLECTOR
collecting batik is my passion 🤎🧡
Batik is an Indonesian technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to the
whole cloth. This technique originated from the island of Java,
Indonesia. Batik is made either by drawing dots and lines of wax with a
spouted tool called a canting, or by printing the wax with a copper
stamp called a cap.
There is nowhere in the world where the art of batik has been developed
to a higher standard than on the island of Java in Indonesia. All the
raw materials for the process are readily available - cotton and beeswax
and many plants from which the natural dyes were made.
The traditional skills were particularly well developed over hundreds of
years in Central Java around the Kraton (or Court) cities of Yogyakarta
and Solo under the patronage of the Sultan and his family.