While batik may be getting a facelift in the fashion world, the production technique remains traditional. Batik artists drip wax through a copper wax dripper called a tjanting to draw designs on ...

Offering the greatest possible value Jeffery explained that each piece of clothing is made by hand. “By placing the patterns in the most effective and pretty way to show off the prints, each batik ...

Some of batik’s greatest promoters, as far back as the mid-19th century, were female entrepreneurs. Women tended to dominate the wax-dripping process, too.

Meanwhile, in New York, Muur has launched a capsule collection of indigo batik. The brand was founded in 2018 by Muriel Salimin, a fashion industry insider with Surinamese and Indonesian family roots.

Meticulous white lines etch out figures of birds, fish and butterflies on a deep, almost navy blue. The fabric, as wide as a ...

In order to do this, she is orchestrating an event called Buffalo Batik – Fashion & Culture Fest. The show will be held at the Karpeles Manuscript Museum on Friday, July 8 at 7pm.

Batik designs are certainly eye-catching…and colourful, too. Batik shirts, dresses, sarees, handbags, etc., have always had a special place in the fashion scene here. However, of late, I’ve noticed a ...

Eric Suriyasena Batiks hosted an elegant and cultivated Batik Fashion show on the 26th July 2019 in Suriya Resort and Spa Marawila as an effort to ignite a passion for the industry within the next ...