Batik Trip!

Hello everyone! This will probably be one of my last posts here, aww :( We've almost concluded our foundation, oh how time flies...  anyways, here's my blog post about the batik trip!

This assignment was a group project and involved us in taking an excursion to a real batik workshop! We assigned ourselves into groups of four, and I ended up with Fauza, Farah, and Eka. Our theme was inspired by Alice in Wonderland's dresses, but with our own twists to it.

I must say, I wish I had more practise with batik, because it was really challenging to do without experience, but now I am interested to visit Jadi Batek again!

Here are the dresses that inspired us:

Now, what is batik? According to google, batik is a method (originally used in Java) of producing coloured designs on textiles by dyeing them, having first applied wax to the parts to be left undyed.

here is the hot, melted wax we used to draw our designs on the silk fabric.

Here is the 'canting' a tool which is used to distribute the wax, like a pen. We had to refill it again and again because the wax ran out and cooled off fast!

Batik paintings for sale at the workshop.

A professional at work, she also helped us with out batik-ing process! She was a lovely lady, so friendly!

Work in progress to be sold at the souvenir shop!

We left the workshop with smiles. Fauza and I!

before...

after...

Their finished works. very gorgeous!

Our batik-ing process

Exhibition day!

our works, Eka, Farah, mine and Fauza's.

— Hidayah