Contemporary Batik

Both an art and a craft, batik is a wonderfully creative medium which is considered the most expressive of the resist mediums. The art of decorating cloth, using wax and dye, has been practised in the East for centuries. While owing much to the past, contemporary batik is markedly different from the more traditional and formal styles with today's batik artists using a variety of different tools, wax resist recipes and materials including silk, cotton, wool, leather, paper or even wood and ceramics.