It is fascinating to think that there are so many existing methods of art and craft all over the world that have been invented and practiced over centuries. It is fascinating to think that there are ...

Fort Bend County Libraries, in conjunction with Sugar Land Area Artists, will present a special artist demonstration of “Wax Batik Painting on Watercolor Paper” at the University Branch Library on ...

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 ...

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.

When you do batik, art teacher Gwen Harleman said, you can take a little brush, or maybe a cookie cutter, and use it to apply melted wax to a piece of silk. Your design can be an angel, a heart or a ...

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For more than 40 years, Sylvia Ridgway from Victoria, P.E.I., has been perfecting her own style of batik. Ridgway has come a long way since attending a night art class in Kingston, Ontario in 1973, ...