During recent decades, we have found ourselves searching for personal identity and values in a world that seems to have little room for them. The vast expansion of technical information expertise and the population explosion impinge on our relationships to each other as individuals and to the world. The need for self-identity has never been greater, and the arts and crafts provide one outstanding means of making contact with the creative potential hidden within all of us. The need to produce and own man made objects in is part a reaction against the machine dominated aspect of almost all we see and touch, and also a search for our own worth has human beings. Handcraft fashions have come to a new importance because they impart a feeling of great pride and joy in knowing the work was imagined and created by an individual and not a ma
A culture rooted craft, the relationship between the people who make them and use them. Batik is viewed as art expression, and refers to the application of liquefied wax, paste, starch, resins, or clay on cloth to resist dyes. The dyer's art does not deal with the single element of dying, but with the art and technique of simultaneously coloring and ornamenting cloth to resist dye. Resist dye means patterning of fabrics by protecting or reserving parts of them for dye penetration, after the dye has been absorbed, the resist is removed displaying a pattern within the un-dyed sections of fabric on a color ground. Process of resist dying, pattern considered an art form. The process the culture uses to execute batik are important as canvas is to a painter. Cloth can distinguish class and indicate wealth at the highest artistic order.
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