Batik Fabled Cloth of Java

Inger McCabe Elliot, "Batik: Fabled Cloth of Java"
English | ISBN: 0517551551, 0794602436 | 2004 | PDF | 240 pages | 74 MB

The exotic textiles of Java have intrigued the outside world for the past 150 years. Batik, the legendary fiber art of painting and dyeing fabrics using a waxing process, has been influenced by cultures as diverse as the Chinese, Indians, Arabs, Portuguese, Dutch, and English. Like no other book before it, Batik takes the reader on a spellbinding tour of Java, revealing batik's history, motifs, and methods of production.

Lovely book !