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.

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 ...

Batik is traditionally linked to Java, but batik clothing today weaves together Indian, Chinese and Malay elements to create a distinctly South-east Asian cultural heritage, said local fashion ...

The Nov. 6 Sunday Source article about batik, an old art form that is created by brushing, drawing or stamping designs with hot wax onto selected areas of a cloth and then dyeing the fabric, omitted ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Dozens of finalists of the 2014 Miss Cendrawasih University in Jayapura have concluded their training session on how to make the Indonesian traditional clothing of batik. The ...

Batik Day (Hari Batik Nasional), which celebrated on 2 October, is an Indonesian cultural day for celebrating batik - the traditional cloth of Indonesia. Amidst many and various batik traders, how can ...