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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Sarong Batik dari Sarawak






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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Batik

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

How to Make Batiks


Step One: What You Need to get started;

  1. A piece of Natural Fiber cloth (no synthetics or blends, I use muslin but any 100% cotton, silk, etc. will do).
  2. Clear or White wax, I just melt down candles.
  3. Cold water dyes, kind of a specialty, ask at your fabric store, (I use Dylon Cold Water, the stuff you use for tie dyes).
  4. A pot that can get messy, and a can or jar in which to melt down the wax.
  5. An Idea of what you want sketched on paper.

Step Two: Getting Messy;

  • Figure out what colors you want and where, this is elaborate, (and sloppy, sorry,) you probably want to start with something simple, just a few colors.
  • Stretch out your fabric on a frame, you can just cut up a piece of cardboard and duct tape it together, (1002 uses for duct tape!).
  • If you like you can sketch lightly in pencil directly on the fabric your idea, (careful, don't make it to dark, especially if you use light colors, you can see the sketch through the dyes).
  • Put your jar or can full of wax into a pot of water and boil the water, the wax will melt, be careful to keep the water topped up outside of the jar.

Step Three: Playing with Wax and Dyes;

  1. Assuming you have white in your batik, this will be where you wax first, using a paint brush, brush wax only in the area you want to keep white.
  2. Once the first layer of wax is applied, soak the whole piece of fabric in your lightest color, (yellow, pink, orange,) until it is as dark as you want it, then hang it to dry.
  3. You do not have to soak your fabric, you may choose to brush or pour the dye on it, but I'll get to that later.
  4. If you have NO white, you will want to dye (or brush) your cloth first in the lightest color(s) you will ultimately want to see. This image is poor, but if you look closely, you'll see waxed over white spots in the yellow, (the dye will not set in the cloth where the wax is).
  5. Wait for it to dry completely, this art entails alot of patience.

Step Four: Colors, Colors, Colors;

  • Now we just layer on Colors, begin with the lightest shades. If your first color was yellow, as was mine, you wax over the places where you wish the yellow to remain.
  • Once waxed, apply the next color, be it orange, pink, alight green. You will find that some colors mix with previous ones and some cover them up quite well, it's all trial and error really. Also note, the length of time you allow the fabric to dye will darken the color.
  • You way wish to brush colors on with a paintbrush. Note in my example, I have dabbed different colors in different places on the cloth, this allows me more variety. iv.) Once the dye has dried, wax over the part which you want to remain that color and continue layering with darker colors. Note, once you make it dark, you can't go back, so be sure to go through all the lighter colors you want before getting into blues and purples.
Very IMPORTANT; always dry the fabric completely before adding the next layer of wax, if the fabric does not dry completely, the wax will not set and the next dyes will bleed in under the wax.
If you like the crumply bled look some of my batiks have, crumple the fabric as you dunk it in the dye, this will create random seams in the wax where dye may seep in. If you don't like it, Don't fold or crumple your fabric at all and be very careful that your wax seeps into the fabric completely.

Step Five: Oops, I messed up;

I mentioned before that you may sometimes fix minor mistakes, here is how:
  1. This only works if you made something lighter that you'd like darker, I use the technique with eyes, when I want to add pupils to big white zombie eyes.
  2. To get an idea what your batik will look like when finished, you may hold it up to the light, if there are spots that you want to darken that are already covered with wax, this is how.
  3. Place a drope of the color dye you want over the wax where you want a darker color, then use a needle or tack and gently scratch into the wax, working the drop of dye into the scratch. You will see it attach to the fabric, and again, holding it up to the light will let you see if you have accomplished what you wanted.

When you are all FINISHED with waxing and dying, and all the dye is dry, place the Batik between sheets of newspaper and iron the newspaper. The wax will seep out of the batik and into the paper. Change the paper frequently and try to get all of the wax out.

NOTE: If you have lots of white, the newsprint will bleed into the white spaces, if this is the case, use butcherpaper or something without print on it around the white areas.

Have fun

Source: http://www.sveninla.com/makebatik.html

Sunday, March 8, 2009

History of Batik

Batik has come a long long way. The history of batik is not very clear still – for although the countries in the nusantara claims it originated from here, but there are other countries that have been practising batik as well. Samples of dye resistance patterns on cloth can be traced back 1,500 - 2000 years ago to Egypt and the Middle East. Samples have also been found in Turkey, India, China, Japan and West Africa from past centuries.

Apparently, batik was introduced to Holand in the seventeenth century and later in early twentieth century, it caught on to Germany. Currently, batik is also known in other parts of Europe and America, though they are more in the form of paintings and not like their counterparts in South East Asia who uses them in fashion.

This site aims to give reference to the history of batik for the countries with strong batik history. It is hoped this will broaden the view of batik history.

From: http://historyofbatik.com/


Wednesday, March 4, 2009

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