Batik and other pattern dyeing

Textile art is one of the oldest arts known to man. Personal adornment was perhaps the first attempt at expressing beauty. Costume designing and textile industries are still mos...

The simplest process of dyeing a fabric consists in submerging it in a solution of dye, known as a "dye-bath," and allowing it to extract or exhaust the color from the bath. It...

The most commonly used fabrics for batiks are thin silks, white or light in color. Wax penetrates the sheer materials better. They take the color more evenly, and retain their b...

Applied design has been the stabilizing factor in art education. It gives to art education a tangible reason for its place in the schools. It injects into every individual and c...

The play bases its claim in the school curriculum on the very essence of human nature. The art of being someone or something else in thought and action under a setting of condit...

This beautiful and fascinating art of textile decoration, applied to draperies and articles of dress, has been practiced in many countries for centuries. Old pieces have been fo...

It has been seen how versatile the batik method is as a means of illuminating fabrics, also how design is the controlling element in all good batik work. In both the space and c...