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Batik: Fabled Cloth of Java
The exotic textiles of Java have intrigued the outside world for the past 150 years. Batik, the legendary fiber art of painting and dyeing fabrics using a waxing process, has been influenced by cultures as diverse as the Chinese, Indians, Arabs, Portuguese, Dutch, and English. Like no other book before it, Batik takes the reader on a spellbinding tour of Java, revealing ba
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Hardcover, 240 pages
Published
May 15th 2004
by Periplus Editions
(first published February 12th 1984)
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Reading this book made me want to become a batik collector. Art, history, religion, politics, all on an item of fashion...where does one sign up? Not only are the illustrations gorgeous, the text is informative and easy to read (although slightly...unstructured). Loved it.
Apr 20, 2014
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batik is very awesome....
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