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Batik and Sari Factory
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| Batik and Weaving Centre |
When it comes to textiles I know my stuff, or
so I thought! I was surprised when I saw
a fabric and I did not know how it was woven. Yes, imagine me, the textile
scholar, not knowing? I had to learn and
see for myself… amazing.
After I studied the process I understood it
perfectly but wow, what work it is to do this.
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| Weaving Design, Unfortunately Covered With Plastic |
Actually the fabric, the design in it, is first
printed on the filling threads, which are all lined up or laid down on a
printing table, no weaving yet, just threads side by side that were partially
dyed in the batik
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| Beautiful Colours Being Woven |
fashion. Then, each thread is wound around a bobbin in the
order in which it was printed, or dyed…. Using these now numbered bobbins, it
was woven by hand. It had to be woven by hand; machine weaving could not do it.
This was tricky weaving, for sure. In order to
line up the design properly in the loom, markers were specially printed outside
the actual fabric, on the edges that had to be mini adjusted by the weaver
after each pass of the shuttle. A very tedious process but… it created a look,
a design one does not see very often.
This weaving is time consuming, the yield
(yards) per day is very low, which also means this fabric is very, very
expensive. As it should be….
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| Hans' Wall Hanging From India |
No, I did not buy any of it, the design was
again, too Balinese for me, for my taste. But I appreciate the ideas behind the
fabrics, the workmanship was great.
I still have on the wall in my office the wall
hanging I bought in India, there just is no longer room to hang anything else,
however rare it is. I got the idea, and yes, WOW, amazing. But I have some
pictures that will have to do as a memory.
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| A Batik Top, Very Cool |
Carol loved some of the garments she saw but
the prices in this place were extreme. Expensive!
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| Making a Design Before It Is Dyed |
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| Adding the Wax to the Design |
Still Carol found a top she just had to
have…pure Batik, pure fun and different.
I tried to buy a shirt, different, too but…
they just don’t make my size…
What they call XXXL is still not made large
enough for my Buddha body. So we had a nice visit, but only Carol could find
something to take home.
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| Some of Their Fashions |
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| Adding Wax to Areas Not to be Dyed |
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| Incredible Batik Designs |
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| It Must Have Taken Hours to Make This One |
