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MAKE AN IMPRESSION: Asheville-based batik artist Jessica Kaufman, left, prints hot wax onto linen fabric with hand-carved teak blocks in Bhujpur, India. Woodblock carver Anwar Khatri, right, shows his ...

DAKAR, SENEGAL—The last day of last year, my kids dragged their homemade Millennium Falcon up a dirt path to visit Jams. Jams is an artist who makes batik shirts in a Baye Fall artisan village.

HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Hannibal Arts Council continues exploring the ancient fabric-dyeing artform known as batik. The next class for participants ages 13 and over will be from 6 to 8 p.m. on June 10 at ...

It was almost noon on a laid-back Saturday, but Sukrismini Kussudiarsono, 50, had been busy all day. If she was not walking around the workshop area at the Textile Museum in Jakarta then she was ...

Solo, Indonesia – Gunawan Setiawan is the fourth generation of batik makers and sellers in his family, and hails from the historic royal city of Surakarta, or Solo, in Central Java which is also known ...

At Vulcan Post, we’ve featured quite a number of local batik brands like inisaya, KITA MADE, Spirit Animal Co., batikTEKTURA, and North Village Artisan Batik. Coupled with the countless other ...