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TEMPO.CO, Solo - Renowned batik producer Batik Keris displayed its most recent batik collection at the Diamond Convention Center in Solo on Saturday, May 25. It showed off various blooming spring ...

Batik design style fabrics have been around for years and were a popular pattern for clothes in the 70s. As with most craft trends, this one is coming back around again and batik print fabrics are ...

Reviving the art of Batik in Egypt is artist Samar Hassanein’s passion as well as her full-time job “The things I like most about Batik are its natural beauty and bright colours and the fact that each ...

Among songs, dances, traditional East Asian cuisine and cultural performances, the three-day ASEAN Festival at Katara also brought with it the world-famous Indonesian Batik. Dozens of people learnt ...

Bold, colourful batik-inspired prints stole the show at Burberry Prorsum recently (pictured, right) and now the Far Eastern print is cropping up on the High Street. Batik is a form of dyeing using wax ...

From Solo and Pekalongan in Central Java, Yogyakarta to the northern Java coast and other batik-producing regions in the country, two batik maestros have invented what is known today as Indonesian ...