Finely detailed are freely for the first time with a pencil on textiles. Then the hot liquid wax is applied. A Javanese woman applying wax in patterns that are participating in a canting (tjanting), a small copper bowl with a long thin beak. From time to time, beating on the tip of the canting to ensure easy flow of wax.[gallery]Areas that are not intended for coloring are presented with the wax. The fabric is then passed through a vat of dye.The wax is removed with hot water, scraping the ...

The word "batik" is of Indonesian origin, although the concept was known to Egyptians and Indians.It is known that more than a millennium old, and it is proved that the fabric decorated by some form of resistance technique has been used in the early centuries of the West in several countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asian communities.The word is originally a Indonesian batik Malay word and means of a point.[gallery]The textile art is spreading in the Hindu and Malay world, but Indonesia is perhaps the heart ...