If you don’t know what to do with the remains of your fruits, why don’t you try to make natural dye for your batik creations ?
In the state of Kelantan in Malaysia, several batik designers create hundreds of colours from fruit skins, leaves, tree bark, flowers, coral and mushrooms.
To produce the dye, the material is […]

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For centuries the preferred waxes used in batik have been beeswax, vegetable and animal waxes, and more recently paraffin. While these mixtures can be boiled out of cotton, removal from acid-dyed silk requires dry cleaning, specifically the use of perchloroethylene, a toxic chemical which is heavily regulated by the EPA in the USA.  In the […]

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