As Indonesia’s traditional icon, batik has shied away from embracing technology for hundreds of years. This has resulted in a slow pace of development of batik, as most craftsmen create batik based on ...

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 ...

Precision and patience: Painting batik patterns on fabrics requires precision and patience, using ink made of hot liquid wax. Precision and patience: Painting batik patterns on fabrics requires ...

It was in 2013 that the government named Jarum village in Bayat district, Klaten, Central Java, a batik tourism village. Around 80 artisans producing handicrafts with various batik patterns live in ...

The clothes we wear in many ways convey to others who we are and where we come from. In the case of Indonesian traditional textile batik, this message is explicit, as patterns and motifs often tell ...

Wang Fangzhou, 40, started in August 2016 a workshop specialized in batik, a craft inherited through generations among Miao ethnic group in Guizhou. Later on, he launched a batik experience gallery in ...

Cai Qun was born in Dazhai in 1974. She was a deputy to the 12th National People's Congress. During the past decade, she has helped many Miao and Buyi women, in her hometown, escape poverty by ...

Bhairavgarh is the heartland of Batik or wax writing - a multipronged form of fabric handiwork generating livelihoods and adding hues of economic value to artisans inhabiting the hamlets around. Few ...