It's Easy To Make A Batik Clothing

Do you know batik? Yes, it’s one of beautiful fabric pattern that comes from Indonesia. Batik was used for many purposes in the past, like show your social status. But, today, batik is used for fashion purpose. You can add it on your clothes for making it looks wonderful or use it as accent. The Indonesia government use batik as their formal clothes. But, there’re also many companies that product batik for non-formal occasion, like batik in t-shirt and even batik shoes. But, one thing for sure, batik is beautiful art that you can put on your clothes. If you like it, you can purchase it on the web. Now, yow will discover many online stores that offer this product. Or, you can visit Indonesia embassy. They often held an event that promotes Indonesia culture. At there, you can find and buy batik that you want. However, if you’re one of DIY person, you can make your own batik. Here’re few things that you need to create your own batik.

There’re many materials that you need to arrange to create your batik clothes. Don’t need to worry, all of them are simple material and easy to get. First is fabric. You can use silk, cotton or mixture of polyester fabric. Next is pencil for drawing the design. Canting for painting batik on the fabric, Gawangan for hanging your fabric (you can use anything to put your fabric, as long you can paint the batik easier), small pan and small stove. The paint material is just liquid wax and solvent dyes. You might think that’s one of hard material list to get. But, don’t need to worry. Internet has all of them and they’re also inexpensive. Now, let’s move to the process to create batik. First, you need to make pattern with pencil. Don’t make your own pattern yet, if this is your first time. It would be better, if you use pattern that already exist. So, when you can draw batik better, you can create your own pattern. Next, melt the wax and use it with the Canting to draw by following the pattern that you have made on the fabric. Use it for detail section and brush for larger section and for colorless section, you need to cover it with wax, so, when you dye the fabric, it won’t get dyed as well. After you finish all that process for making pakaian batik, you need to put it in the solvent dye. After that, let it dry.

Now, after it’s dried, you need to boil it in hot water. It’s for removing the wax. And last step, you need to wash it clean, before you wear it. Now, you have your own fabric for making kaos batik or scarf. It’s pretty simple, isn’t it?