Batik Workshop

Out of all the workshops I attended; Batick has to be my favourite. I think that Batik has many similarities to Tie dye as both techniques are a process of resist dying of textiles.
Although I feel that Batik is more effective as the process is more creative as you can choose your design and simply.. Go Wild

This is my first attempt:

In my experience I found that Batik-ing was slightly difficult as you have to own a steady hand and patience is a virtue, The main aim of Batik is to use your utensil to guide the hot wax onto your chosen fabric.

Sounds simple? Think again.

Occasionally the wax would become abit 'excited' and jump out of the utensil and onto the fabric which me and my peers found abit frustrating. After situating wax onto your fabric you must then wait for the wax to dry therefore you can either paint, ink or do what you want to the fabric to add colour.

But one problem.. how do you get te wax off?

Well, you simply place your wax riddled fabric between two pieces of newspaper and simply iron. Now, the heat from the iron extracts the wax away from your fabric which leaves you with your Batik styled design.

I found Batik very interesting and enjoed trying this technique out. I found that this technique was very effective so I decided to use it in my accessory.