Zaky, an employee for a tax-consultant office in Jakarta’s central business district, admits to wearing batik for its functionality, “On Fridays, the office gives us an option to wear batik or a short ...

SUBANG: The Asean gala dinner tonight will see leaders dressed in something distinctly Malaysian: custom-made batik shirts, tailored for each head of government and state, sewn by local hands. But ...

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 ...

Batik is something that almost every Malaysian household would have. Whether it’s in the form of a sarong, a headband, or even a painting, it’s a traditional cultural craft that seems to withstand the ...

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For visual artist Arif Rafhan Othman, batik is more than colour and ornamentation. He treats it as a miniature world — one where every motif holds a story waiting to be read. At 48, Arif approaches ...

The techniques, symbolism and culture surrounding hand-dyed cotton and silk garments known as Indonesian Batik permeate the lives of Indonesians from beginning to end: infants are carried in batik ...

Villagers draw batik patterns at a workshop in Gulin County, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province. Batik, a craft inherited through generations among the Miao ethnic group has a history of more than 2,000 ...