Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends, family, or colleagues. As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed! atik has two definitive ...

Java is a Javanese word. Java is one of the islands of Indonesia. But this form of art is rooted in China. In Iran, this print is called “Kalagheh’i”. The only region of Iran where Batik prints are ...

For centuries, craftspeople from Southeast Asia to West Africa have used wax resist dyeing to create textile designs of stunning complexity and rich, durable color. To this day, traditional batik ...

Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends, family, or colleagues. As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed! atik is a traditional ...

Batik means painted or dotted in Javanese. The origins of this traditional Indonesian handicraft, which uses applications of wax to create patterns in dyed cloth, reach back more than 1,000 years.

1/11Shakeel Ahmed Khatri is a pioneer among the present generation of Batik printers because he experiments with colours, patterns and natural dyes. Photos: Priyanka Parashar/Mint 2/1170-year-old ...

Using a little Arduino hardware and programming a new CNC printing machine has been created to help bring Batik designs to life. Batik is a fabric decoration technique where wax is applied by hand to ...

Plain, mono-coloured clothing with little print on them is the most concise way to describe my fashion style. That also describes KITA MADE’s T-shirts to a tee (pardon the pun), as the startup sells ...