Handmade Photo Albums from Bali Indonesia by Balifurnish.Com
Our handmade stationery handicrafts products are made by small traditional home industries, artisans crafts producers in a remote village in Bali Island Indonesia. The purchase of any of these handmade photo album, notebook, journal address book helps the crafts makers families in their traditional Balinese daily life. Each design available not only for photo album, but also available as phone book or notebook. State Photo Album, Address Book or Notebook when ordering.

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Indonesia Handmade Photo Album made of fabric ornate with sea shells

More info for Batik fabric:
Batik is a wax-resist dyeing technique used on fabric. Batik is found in several countries. The island of Java in Indonesia is famous for its batik. Melted wax is applied to cloth before being dipped in dye. Wherever the wax has seeped through the fabric, the dye will not penetrate. Sometimes several colors are used, with a series of dyeing, drying and waxing steps. Thin wax lines are made with a canting, a tiny metal cup with a tiny spout, out of which the wax seeps. Other methods of applying the wax onto the fabric include pouring the liquid wax, painting the wax on with a brush, and applying the hot wax to a precarved wooden block and stamping the fabric.

After the last dyeing, the fabric is hung up to dry. Then it is dipped in a solvent to dissolve the wax, or ironed between paper towels or newspapers to absorb the wax and reveal the deep rich colors and the fine crinkle lines that give batik its character. Java produces the world's finest batik. A traditional method of decorating cloth, batik is an art of great antiquity. Java's principal batik centers are Yogyakarta, Solo, Pekalongan, Cirebon, Tasikmalaya, Indramayu, Garut, and Lasem. The most prized and expensive batik is batik tulis. Batik tulis are usually drawn on fine cotton, linen or silk. Finely detailed designs are sometimes first drawn free-hand with a pencil on the textile. Then hot liquid wax, impervious to dye, is applied with a pen-like instrument called a canting, which has one, two or three spouts and a small bowl on top which is dipped into the hot wax. Are not slated for coloring are filled in with wax. The cloth is then passed through a vat of dye. The wax is removed with hot water, scraped from the portions of the dried material still to be dyed. Next, other areas are waxed over. This is repeated during each phase of the coloring process,up to four or more times, until the overall pattern adn effect are achieved. A batik tulis could require up to 40 days to complete.

Batik Cap is a faster and cheaper method, using the same traditional patterns. Cooper stamps (cap) are used to impress wax patterns onto the fabric. Cap are made from strips of metal and wire meticulously soldered together, and are themselves collector's items and art objects. Batik designs are as infinite and variegated as Javanese society itself. You find crazy quilt patterns, circles, ovals, rosette shapes, stars, flowering tendrills, checkered and round patterns, rhombuses, wavy lines, S-like flourishes, swastikas, and birdtails. Example of Indonesian handicrafts with batik:

Historically, batik has employed natural organic dyes. Indigo is the oldest dye. In the 19th century, Europeans introduced synthetic dyes which are now widely used. Colors still differentiate certain regions : turkey red for Sumatra, blue-black from Indramayu. Yogyakarta and Solo hold to the official court colors : indigo, dark browns, deep blues, and maroon - colors of dignity. West Javanese batik is punctuated by golden yellows and light browns with rich,dark, blackish-blue backgrounds. Modern batik makes use of multicolored combinations.

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