BATIK:
THE ART AND
CRAFT
Representatives
For Continental Europe:
BOXERBOOKS INC., Zurich
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PRENTICE-HALL INTERNATIONAL, INC., London
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PAUL FLESCH & CO., PTT. LTD., Melbourne
Published by the Charles E. Tuttle Company Inc.
of Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan
Copyright in Japan, 1966
by Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc.
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Catalog No. 66—16267
ISBN: 978-1-4629-0957-5 (ebook)
First Printing 1966
Book design and typography by John Paull
PRINTED IN JAPAN
BATIK or "wax writing"
as the Javanese translate it,
has become my medium and code
for communication with many people
of many distant places
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Basic Patterns 25
The Tjanting 26
The Tjap 31
Language of Indonesian Fashion 32
Ancient Designs 32
List of Utensils 36
Suppliers 37
Fabrics 38
Applying the Design 39
The Wax 40
Applying the Wax 40
The Dyes 43
Color Mixing 44
Conversion Table 45
Dyeing the Fabric 46
Crackle 47
Removing the Wax 48
Dry Cleaning the Batik 49
Step-by-Step Dyeing method 51
Sectional Dyeing 55
Procedure 55
Tie Dyeing 56
Keeping a Record 61
Sample Chart 61
EXAMPLES OF MODERN BATIKS • 62
List of Illustrations
Asterisks (*) indicate color plates
THE HISTORY OF BATIK
6-8 Basic parang patterns 18/19
9 Basic tjeplok patterns 20/21
11 Tulis batik 24
BATIK IN INDONESIA
12 Girls selling batik 25
13-15 National costume 26/27
16-20 Women applying batik 28/29
21 Using the tjap 30
22 Tjap batik 31
23-25 Sample batiks 32/33
MODERN BATIK METHOD
27 Utensiles 36
28-39 Modern batiks 38/49
40 Thermo-tray 49
41 Dyeing method 50/51
*42 Color sequence 53
*43 Color sequence for sectional dyeing 54
44-45 Sectional dyeing 55
46-49 Tie dyeing 57
50-51 Tie dyeing method 58
*52-54 Tie dyeing material 59
*55-58 Modern batiks 60
*67-69 Modern batiks 66
70-89 Modern batiks 67/75
NOTE
Unless captioned otherwise, all examples illustrated are the work of the author.
Acknowledgment
My sincere thanks to all who contributed to this book, in particular; Ambassador Dr. and Mrs. Fred Bieri of Switzerland; The Cultural Counselor of the Indonesian Embassy, Washington D.C.; The Museum of Ethnology, Basel, Switzerland; The Röhsska Konstslöjdmuseet, Göteborg, Sweden; Mr. Grant Cole of Glen Falls, N.Y., for his photography, and last but not least, to my husband and son.
Acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to use illustrations included in this book.
Ambassador Fred Bieri, Swiss