Celebrated by designers, tastemakers, and pattern-lovers for centuries, batik is both a type of fabric and an ancient dyeing technique with a long and complicated history. Often grouped with other ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Every morning, Salomina Mallo sits by a large sheet of cotton cloth with a canting, or a spouted batik etching tool, in hand. She then carefully draws dots and patterns with wax on ...

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 ...

PIKIRAN RAKYAT – The art of batik in Indonesia is more than just colored fabric, it is a cultural heritage that embodies the beauty and depth of philosophy passed down from generation to generation.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Old Java Batik collections belonging to Annegret Haake and Rudolf Smend are being displayed in an exhibition entitled “Batik-Alte Tradition aus Indonesien” in Schloss Schonebeck ...