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Batik

Cloth patterned by drawing or stamping with hot wax, dyeing, then removing the wax.

Also: wax resist

Batik is wax-resist dyeing. Melted wax is applied to cloth with a small spouted tool or a copper stamp. The waxed areas stay undyed. For each new colour, wax is added or removed and the cloth dyed again. Fine cracks in the wax let in threads of dye, a mark of the method. Java in Indonesia is its best-known home, and UNESCO recognised Indonesian batik as intangible cultural heritage in 2009. Related wax-resist traditions exist in Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka and China, and inspired the wax prints of West Africa.

See also

Resist dyeingIkatAdire

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