PIKIRAN RAKYAT – The art of batik in Indonesia is more than just colored fabric, it is a cultural heritage that embodies the beauty and depth of philosophy passed down from generation to generation.

Through batik, a painstaking process of hand-drawn wax design and dipping dye, traditional Indonesian cloths are bathed in rich color and patterned with plumes of flora, fauna and abstract design.

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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Every morning, Salomina Mallo sits by a large sheet of cotton cloth with a canting, or a spouted batik etching tool, in hand. She then carefully draws dots and patterns with wax on ...

JAKARTA -- If I had to choose a favorite textile, and a favorite place to admire its infinite forms, it would be Indonesia's traditional batik in Thamrin City, a windowless multilevel market in the ...

The Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles is travelling back in time to when King Chulalongkorn fell in love with Javanese culture during his visits to Indonesia and brought home 307 of the finest batiks ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Old Java Batik collections belonging to Annegret Haake and Rudolf Smend are being displayed in an exhibition entitled “Batik-Alte Tradition aus Indonesien” in Schloss Schonebeck ...

Comfortable shop: Shopping in Kampung Batik Trusmi is really comfortable. The batik fabrics are sold at varying prices, according to the quality. ( Comfortable shop: Shopping in Kampung Batik Trusmi ...