To create a cool and interesting pattern, you can either use several rolls of yarn with different colors that go well together or get multi-color yarn like this LaVita Batik Hand Knitting Yarn.

Batik is an ancient form of dyeing textiles in which hot wax is applied to a piece of cloth in some design. When the cloth is submerged in a dye bath, the parts covered with wax resist the pigment.

Fabric painting is easy and colorful. But did you know there are all kinds of techniques you can use to create different effects? Batik - using hot wax as a fabric resist is one of them.

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Yang Fang dries batik cloth at home in Danzhai county, Southwest China's Guizhou province, on Oct 28, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua] The batik system of dyeing, which originated during the Han Dynasty (206 ...

Jantima Sukmetta, 52, gradually unfolds a batik fabric. It has distinguished colours of golden yellow and brown, the naturally dyed colours from turmeric and leaves of khonthi (beach vitex).

JAKARTA -- If I had to choose a favorite textile, and a favorite place to admire its infinite forms, it would be Indonesia's traditional batik in Thamrin City, a windowless multilevel market in ...

Batik is traditionally linked to Java, but batik clothing today weaves together Indian, Chinese and Malay elements to create a distinctly South-east Asian cultural heritage, said local fashion ...