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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 ...

enowned designer Edward Hutabarat once likened batik to “a beautiful remnant of a civilization” and called it the textile of Indonesian culture. “The batik industry has been developing well in the ...

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia — Hadi Suwito quietly sits at his desk to oversee the daily operations of Batik Plentong, one of Yogyakarta’s surviving manufacturers of traditional batik textile. On the wall ...

Tourism is a major contributor to the Indonesian economy. But in the rush to cash in on the tourist trade, one local business says traditional culture is being compromised. Tourism is a major ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Sample of third wax drawing (details) ...

Reviving the art of Batik in Egypt is artist Samar Hassanein’s passion as well as her full-time job “The things I like most about Batik are its natural beauty and bright colours and the fact that each ...