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 ...

atik is among the nation’s most popular items of cultural heritage. Despite its popularity, not many people know about the traditional fabric’s history, the manufacturing process as well as the people ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines - An innovation that combines the traditional wear of two countries may just become the official ASEAN attire. At one DSWD monitoring meeting about two years ago, Muslim woman ...

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 ...