Travel Guide

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.

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 sides of the dried remains to be dyed.

Later, other areas are more than waxing. This is repeated during every stage of color, up to four times or more until the general pattern and the effects are achieved. Basically, as an art, painting is batiking. The canting is used to produce the image, its size depending on the type and degree of fine lines or points desired. Canting more than one peak (may be up to seven) is used to model forms with the point.