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Batik design style fabrics have been around for years and were a popular pattern for clothes in the 70s. As with most craft trends, this one is coming back around again and batik print fabrics are ...

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Among songs, dances, traditional East Asian cuisine and cultural performances, the three-day ASEAN Festival at Katara also brought with it the world-famous Indonesian Batik. Dozens of people learnt ...

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 ...

Batik artisans in Lasem, Central Java, strive to continue their family businesses and keep traditional legacies alive. While it is a large part of Indonesia’s cultural heritage, the art of making ...

In contrast, the production of genuine batik is more time-consuming, involving artisanal techniques like stamping or hand-drawing, with the resulting products referred to as batik cap (stamped batik) ...

SINGAPORE – The Peranakan Museum’s latest exhibition, which presents about 200 heirloom batik textiles and accompanying objects such as accessories, zooms in on three Chinese Peranakan women from the ...