BATIK: PAINTING TECHNIQUES ON DIFFERENT FABRICS CARACTERISTICS OF THE INDIAN PAINTING
First Stage
The drawing is carried out in pencil.
Second Stage
A small melting pot, called Tjanting, is used to coat the white side of the object with a layer of wax, in order to insulate it from the other colours.
Third Stage
The painting and the coating are repeated according to the number of colours needed, starting from the lighter one and always insulating the part concerned.
Fourth Stage
Dark dye bath.
Fifth Stage
The darker colour or the whole object is coated with wax.
Sixth stage
The object is crumpled up and the wax crumbles. Then there’s the last dye bath that filters inside the cracks and gives the object its typical marble-like effect.
Seventh Stage
The wax is heated with an iron so that the paper will absorb it.

A) Only high quality materials are used;

B) It is not possible to heve two identic paintings but similar;

C) Colcurs cannot be damaged even after many woshing;

D) Very old technics for thousand years. Even now days it is a painting done in every nation and particulary in India, Indonesia, Africa. It si tought in many schoolsin Italy and abroad;

E) Carateristic painting for clothing and decoration;

F) The cloth painted like that is one of the more reliable (for example oil painting is damaged by time). The batik can be easily conserved and washed. We can realize paintings of every kind width maximum length of 3 m and width 2 m. We are completcly at the disponsal of tourists in order to realize a painting of their choice. We can send the painting abroad with cash with order.