Batik: Fabled Cloth of Java
The exotic textiles of Java have intrigued the outside world for the past 150 years. Batik, the legendary fiber art of painting and dyeing fabrics using a waxing process, has been influenced by cultures as diverse as the Chinese, Indians, Arabs, Portuguese, Dutch, and English. Like no other book before it, Batik takes the reader on a spellbinding tour of Java, revealing batik's history, motifs, and methods of production.
- Author
- Inger McCabe Elliott, Brian Brake
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Periplus Editions
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780794602437
- Genres
- art
- Release date
- 2004
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