Batik Experience

I recently had the opportunity to learn how to do batik. This is a fabric printed by an Indonesian method of hand-printing textiles by coating with a wax the parts not to be dyed. It was an interesting and fun process. It was all done outside where it was quite hot and rather dirty. These are the ladies that went with me. They are Sister Marie Hadley, her niece Danea, visiting from Idaho, Sister Wendy Tolley, and me.

This is Emanuel, our instructor and his helper, Pricilla. They are cutting the muslin that we used in the process.

These are sponge squares that have been dipped in hot wax, that have African designs on them.

This is Emanuel dipping the cloth in colored dye. After it dried, we repeated the process by stamping a different design.and then soaking it in a different color dye.

After the dye dried, we had to put the cloth in boiling water to set the colors. This is Pricilla  stirring the hot water.










These are examples of the finished product.