As Indonesia’s traditional icon, batik has shied away from embracing technology for hundreds of years. This has resulted in a slow pace of development of batik, as most craftsmen create batik based on ...

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The clothes we wear in many ways convey to others who we are and where we come from. In the case of Indonesian traditional textile batik, this message is explicit, as patterns and motifs often tell ...

Buddhi Batiks launched their latest collection on December 6 at their Ward Place, Colombo 7 store. The shop was a colour palette of batiks of varied patterns for all ages. Ladies tried on silk sarees ...

JAKARTA -- If I had to choose a favorite textile, and a favorite place to admire its infinite forms, it would be Indonesia's traditional batik in Thamrin City, a windowless multilevel market in the ...

Among songs, dances, traditional East Asian cuisine and cultural performances, the three-day ASEAN Festival at Katara also brought with it the world-famous Indonesian Batik. Dozens of people learnt ...

Batik design style fabrics have been around for years and were a popular pattern for clothes in the 70s. As with most craft trends, this one is coming back around again and batik print fabrics are ...

We’ve spoken to many entrepreneurs with side hustles who eventually leave their full-time jobs to wholly focus on their businesses. This tends to be the case once the business has gained traction, but ...

In the business for more than a decade, Ahmad told The Jakarta Post that consumers were increasingly turning to batik-like fabrics as a cheaper option amid weakening spending power in the country.