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 ...

Zaky, an employee for a tax-consultant office in Jakarta’s central business district, admits to wearing batik for its functionality, “On Fridays, the office gives us an option to wear batik or a short ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Arranging batik tiles is where creativity comes into play. Start by sketching a rough layout on paper or using digital tools to visualize your design. Experiment with different arrangements before ...

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 ...