IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Sample of sixth wax drawing ...

Batik is the traditional Indonesian art of decorating and dyeing fabrics, and Yogyakarta is one of the most well known hubs. Batik fabrics are unique pieces of art created by drawing motifs on the ...

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 ...

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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Not everyone knows that Magelang actually produces batik. It has some unique patterns as they picture local myths and tales on the fabric. Magelang batik pioneer, Kelik Subarjo, ...

Women living in Rusunawa Marunda and Rawa Bebek, North Jakarta, produce batik pieces that represent the capital. “Batik is a living heritage,” Anderson Sitorus, a history expert of the Indonesia ...

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia — Hadi Suwito quietly sits at his desk to oversee the daily operations of Batik Plentong, one of Yogyakarta’s surviving manufacturers of traditional batik textile. On the wall ...

How do our clothes and other fabrics tell the trajectory of our lives? One woman’s answer is now on display in a special two-week exhibit at the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. ‘A Lady Found a ...

SEREMBAN, May 28 (Bernama) -- Who would have imagined that a woman with no prior drawing skills would go on to become a pioneer in producing ‘Bunga Lado’ (pepper flower)-patterned batik - a ...

GUIZHOU, Nov. 7, 2019 (Xinhua) -- Batik, a craft inherited through generations among the Miao ethnic group in southwest China's Guizhou, has a history of more than 2,000 years. Danzhai County is a ...