"Twenties" is a new column that offers The Jakarta Post's top 20 of everything under the sun, from history to pop culture and food to lifestyle. Batik, one of Indonesia’s most beloved icons and a ...
Often confused with Ajrakh, Bagh is another traditional block-printing craft, but its visual language is quite different.
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TEMPO.CO, Solo - Renowned batik producer Batik Keris displayed its most recent batik collection at the Diamond Convention Center in Solo on Saturday, May 25. It showed off various blooming spring ...
The Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles is travelling back in time to when King Chulalongkorn fell in love with Javanese culture during his visits to Indonesia and brought home 307 of the finest batiks ...
Zakaria (left) showing visitors how to use colours and brushes to create batik paintings at Kampung Kraftangan in Kota Baru. — Bernama Batik painting at Kampung Kraftangan in Kota Baru, Kelantan, ...
SINGAPORE – The Peranakan Museum’s latest exhibition, which presents about 200 heirloom batik textiles and accompanying objects such as accessories, zooms in on three Chinese Peranakan women from the ...