BATIK

Batik is an art to decorate cloth with wax using resist method. In Malaysia, there are
two types of batik ; hand-drawn batik and stamped batik. Hand-Drawn Batik is
where the designs are drawn on the fabric with hot liquid wax by using a metal
object called ‘canting’. Another type of batik is the stamped batik or block-printed
batik. The canting will be replaced by a copper block or a wooden stamp with
artistic patterned bottom. The block is then dipped into wax and printed onto the
fabric. Various fabrics are used in batik production such as cotton, rayon, linen, and
silk. These fabrics are patterned with floral and geometrical motifs, arranged in
various layouts according to the current trends.