Batik - Do It Yourself

First Step - Making Batik - Preparing the wax

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Making the basic sketch. With a dark pencil or charcoal, begin to sketch your design on the cloth. It does not have to be elaborate-just a few guidelines.
we did not put small details on the picture as these are difficult to reproduce in batik

Next

Melt the paraffin wax and beeswax in 70%-30% ratio in a bowl with heater.When it becomes liquid.Fill the CANTING with the mixture of wax.

Draw the wax on a white fabric. The fabric can be cotton or silk. The process has to be fast and accurate because the wax will cool down fast and cannot be corrected once applied.

Equipment preparation

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FABRICS
Natural fiber fabrics, such as cotton, linen and silk, are the ones to use for batik.Avoid all synthetic fibers.

Dye
Batik dye must be a cold dye since hot water would cause the hardened wax to melt in the dyebath

Wax
The ideal mixture for batik work is 30% beeswax to 70% paraffin wax, and to try it for the first time you can easily melt down candles. whereas paraffin wax is brittle, cracking easily. So how you mix the two determines how much crackling you will get.

Craft brushes

tjaunting tool

What is batik

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Batik is both an art and a craft. Batik may be used for pillow tops, wall hangings, place mats or scarves.Batik use hot wax and dye to create intricate patterns on cloth.Combined with the pleasure of drawing freehand is the fascination of working creatively with dyes-blending and mixing different colors as subtle as you want.If you have all materials.It's easy ,do it yourself.

Materials:

Beeswax
Paraffin
Old electric skillet
Craft brushes
tjaunting tool (a special tool for batiking)
Rubber gloves
Dyes
Light-colored fabric