PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Batik is a 2000-year-old clothes dyeing technique that uses wax to coat the parts of the fabric you don’t want to dye. Now the Portland Fashion Institute is working to ...

Learn the basics of the age-old technique—and how to make batik fabric sing in a modern home ...

Indonesia may be the undisputed king of batik – the traditional art of decorating fabric using wax and dye – but neighbouring Malaysia is embracing this versatile, time-honoured technique with ...

The decision to use more batik-based material for formal occasions, instead of coat and tie, will give a boost to the industry, which has undergone some difficult times of late. V.K. CHIN writes.