Portal:Indonesia/POTW/52, 2007

Batik is a traditional Javanese wax-resist dyeing technique used on textile. The process of creating batik is an elaborate one, starting from melting wax, dipping the cloth in a dye until lining the cloth with a special needle, called canting. The common motifs of Javanese batik are animals and plants pattern.

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