For Fern Chua, batik is an art – and like any true artist, she pours her soul into every design, blending tradition with her own contemporary expression.

The imagination can be freed working with textiles, where fiber art techniques such as shibori, batik, silk-painting, or block-printing can be adapted from global traditions, cultural symbolism, or ...

The techniques, symbolism and culture surrounding hand-dyed cotton and silk garments known as Indonesian Batik permeate the lives of Indonesians from beginning to end: infants are carried in batik ...

“Batik can be crafted on various fabrics, including cotton, cotton-silk, linen and silk. While silk-based batik often commands a higher price, options like cotton, cotton-silk and linen are more ...

Batik is a form of printing an image on a fabric using wax and ... “This technique was probably introduced to Sri Lanka through the silk route,” says veteran designer Senaka De Silva adding that ...

My eyesight deteriorated as I got older, and because of that I gave up batik on silk – it was better for me to just paint." She lived in Utopia, Northern Territory, Australia and was awarded the ...

We meet the petite designer on a Friday, in the shop she named after her daughter Acushla. Inside, the batik silk sarees she loves to design and is most famous for are on display. Sonali inspects one ...