BATIK TECHNIQUE

MONIKA THAKKAR
DARSHIKA MOHILE
INTRODUCTION
Batik is an ancient art form. Batik is a cloth that is traditionally made using
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a manual wax resist dyeing technique.
Traditional colours in batik includes indigo , dark brown, and white. Which
represents the three major hindu gods brahma, vishnu and shiva.
It is belived that the finest batik designs in india come from the artisans of
cholamandalam near chennai tamilnadu. Batik printing is also done in
gujarat, rajasthan, andhrapradesh, maharashtra west bangal, and
madhyapradesh.
Majorly there are two types of batik
1.Printed
2.Painted
History
Even though its exact history is uncertain fragments of
batik’s projected origin dates back to the first century
where it was discovered in ancient Egyptian tombs,
and in the 4th century BC, where it was used to wrap
mummies.
Evidence of early batik has also been found all over the
middle east, in India, central Asia and Africa.
The word batik seems to come from an Indonesian
word ambatik a cloth with little dots.
Types of batik
Batik painting
Tools and equipments
process
Fabric is soaked in the boiling water of detergent and soda ash for 30
minutes and then dried under the sun untill the water eveapourates.
Fabric is placed in the frame.
Then desired design is traced onto the fabric with a paint brush or wooden
block.
Then the portion which we don’t want to colour is resisted first with a wax.
And start applying the colours in the rest of the design. We can also apply
different colours in one design.
For that as we fill one colour into the design we will have to resist the
particular area with wax. And apply the second colour as well and resist
that too.
Then the procedure of dewaxing is done by soaking the fabric in hot water
for 30 minutes untill the wax is removed from the fabric then soaked in a
normal water and dried under the sun.
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