Monday, February 01, 2010

Beautiful Batiks

In Penang, Malaysia, I visited a batik factory.  Everything is done the old-fashioned way and many of the designs were one-offs – made for companies and uniforms.
Very time consuming and makes my efforts at batik look particularly feeble!
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2 comments:

Jennifer said...

I'm so fascinated by batiks!!

OneLittleThread said...

Yes, these were particularly colourful and painstakingly slow to do I imagine