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The Meaning of Batik

What is batik? I can safely make thisbackground.
statement that while many people know or have
heard about this word, especially so here inAnd of course, the artist will later have to
Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, but manywash the wax off the cloth, hence leaving
people do not, or rather, have got a wrongthat part which was originally covered with
misconception  of  batik  itself.wax back to its original white fabric colour.
Hence, the white outline for the motif. And
In my discussions with friends and generalthat  is  all  it is to the meaning of batik.
public, many people have mistaken batik with
batik design/ batik designs or even batikHowever as mentioned earlier, a lot of people
fabric.mistake batik with batik design/ batik
designs especially if they see a traditional
History has it that batik is an old craftor floral type motif, or patterns on a cloth
that dates centuries back. Batik is actuallythat have white outlines. These may or may
a hand-drawn and hand-painted technique,not necessary come from the 'batik'
which  uses  wax.technique, as it could come from modern day
print.
The wax is a form of 'resist' method, and the
purpose of this method is so that when colourIn addition, just because these prints have
is put on a certain spot on the fabric, itthe more traditional motifs/ patterns, don't
does not run to the other part. Let's take anmistake them to come from the art form of
example - an artist is is going to draw abatik.
floral motif and he wants the background blue
eg. the motif of a flower (a yellow flowerIn fact, there are modern designs, which
with  a  green  stalk).actually are made from the batik technique as
well. But people do not know it is so because
Now, imagine that the artist will be drawingit does not have the traditional look and
on a white piece of cloth. The artist willfeel  to  it.
first draw the outline of the motif (ie. the
flower & stalk) with wax. And later, he willSo my suggestion to you that if you
start to paint, starting with the yellowappreciate art, and batik in particular,
colour of the flower. What the wax does is tofirst be aware whether the fabric you buy
hold the yellow in place, so that it will notreally comes from the batik art. And secondly
run to the green stalk. And when he paintsto be open minded to embrace the change in
with green next, the same thing applies, thatmodern times that batik need not necessary
is the green will not flow to the yellowrelate just to old motif/ patterns.
flower. Finally, he paints the blue



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