Batik is an ancient form of dyeing textiles in which hot wax is applied to a piece of cloth in some design. When the cloth is submerged in a dye bath, the parts covered with wax resist the pigment.

Batik is an ancient form of dyeing textiles in which hot wax is applied to a piece of cloth in some design. When the cloth is submerged in a dye bath, the parts covered with wax resist the pigment.

African- and Asian-inspired fashions exploded out of stores this summer after designers flooded runways with boho love. The weather has cooled, but the boho look is still hot. Here's an inexpensive ...

Batik, the ancient art of creating patterned cloth using wax that allows artisans to selectively dye certain areas of the material, is practiced in countries around the world, including Indonesia, ...

Using a little Arduino hardware and programming a new CNC printing machine has been created to help bring Batik designs to life. Batik is a fabric decoration technique where wax is applied by hand to ...

In Malaysia, sustainability is often framed around renewable energy, carbon reduction, green technology and climate risk ...

The New York Times' classic slogan reads: "All the News That's Fit to Print." For artist Chuck Kaiser, that slogan might read: "All the News That's Fit to Wax and Dye." Kaiser, a Lancaster artist ...

In the mid-1960s, the Indonesian art form of batik was swiftly gaining exposure in East Africa. But so were the political ambitions of Idi Amin, the Ugandan dictator responsible for thousands of ...