Beautiful, handcrafted fabrics collected by President Obama's mother are on display at the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. The late Ann Dunham began purchasing the hand-dyed textiles when she lived ...

Celebrated by designers, tastemakers, and pattern-lovers for centuries, batik is both a type of fabric and an ancient dyeing technique with a long and complicated history. Often grouped with other ...

Jantima Sukmetta, 52, gradually unfolds a batik fabric. It has distinguished colours of golden yellow and brown, the naturally dyed colours from turmeric and leaves of khonthi (beach vitex). The ...

Reviving the art of Batik in Egypt is artist Samar Hassanein’s passion as well as her full-time job “The things I like most about Batik are its natural beauty and bright colours and the fact that each ...

At Vulcan Post, we’ve featured quite a number of local batik brands like inisaya, KITA MADE, Spirit Animal Co., batikTEKTURA, and North Village Artisan Batik. Coupled with the countless other ...

SINGAPORE – The fabric of a multicultural society must be like a piece of batik – a single fabric crafted by different hands to create a larger motif of many colours, President Tharman Shanmugaratnam ...

JAKARTA: Indonesia has seen a steep decline in the number of artisanal batik producers over the past four years across key production centres, from Java to Sumatra, as pressure mounts from a surge of ...