How To Make a Batik

Maybe you frequent to the center selling clothes in a store or buy the batik store. But if you want to create your own batik model the following way. To make a batik, the equipment required are: cloth (can be made from silk, cotton or polyester blend fabrics), pencil to create batik designs, canting made of bamboo, copper-headed and bercerat or mouthed, canting it works like a pen. Canting is used to scoop out the hot liquid wax, which is used as a covering or protective material to the dye. gawangan (a place to hang cloth), candles, pots and a small stove for heating.
Step - step is as follows:

• The first step we make a batik design on the cloth with a pencil or so-called molani. In determining motif batik design, usually everyone has different tastes. Some prefer to make your own batik motifs, but others prefer to follow the common motifs that have been there.

• The second step is to use a canting which already contains the liquid wax to coat the desired pattern. The goal is that when dyeing the material into the dye solution, part of a given layer of wax is not exposed. Once the wax is quite dry, dip a cloth into the dye solution.

• The last process is nglorot, where the cloth has changed color boiled with hot water. The goal is to eliminate a layer of wax, so the motif of batik cloth that has been drawn previously apparent. You do not need to worry, this will not dyeing makes & models batik motifs that have been exposed to the color of your image, because the top of the fabric is still shrouded in a thin layer (wax is not completely washed out).

So the result is known for its batik cloth batik cloth. You can get a batik with better quality than those available at the batik shop. Naming it is given, as well as batik, there is also a batik, batik printing, batik painting and silk screening. Good luck, hopefully you get the best batik design.