Crossword clues for batik
batik
- Traditional cloth dyeing technique
- Project for your dyeing days
- You'll be dyeing to do it
- Wax-resist dyeing technique
- Wax-and-tint technique
- Wax-and-dye method
- Wax-and-dye design
- Wax-and-dye art
- Wax dye technique
- Sarong material
- Sarong fabric
- One way to dye
- Malaysian cloth
- Javanese hand-dyed fabric
- Javanese art form
- Indonesian dyeing method
- Handiwork to dye for
- Hand-dyeing craft
- Fabric-dyeing process
- Fabric decoration technique
- Dyeing craft
- Dye-and-wax art
- Dye process
- Designer fabric
- Craft named a UNESCO Masterpiece
- Colorful patterned fabric
- Cloth-dyeing method
- Cloth-dyeing craft
- Cloth-dyeing art
- A dyeing art
- Dyeing technique using wax
- Wax-and-tint art form
- Hand-dyed fabric
- Decoration technique
- Colorful fabric
- A dyeing art?
- It's a dyeing art?
- Dyeing art
- Certain fabric worker's work
- Dyed fabric
- Tie-dye alternative
- A dyed fabric
- A removable wax is used where the dye is not wanted
- Fabric design
- Hand-dyeing technique
- Dyeing process
- Cousin of tie-dye
- Dye-designed fabric
- Printed textile
- Textile dyeing method
- Colorful Indonesian fabric
- Craft of cricketer, one opener for Kent
- Fabric patterning method
- Hand-dyeing method
- Printed fabric
- Fabric dyeing technique
- Something to dye for
- Fabric-dyeing technique
- Dyeing method
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
batik \batik\ n.
A dyed fabric with designs drawn on by applying a removable wax where the dye is not wanted.
The method used to create a batik[1]; using wax to allow drawing or printing of designs on a fabric.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1880, from Dutch, from Malay mbatik, said to be from amba "to write" + titik "dot, point."
Wiktionary
n. A wax-resist method of dyeing fabric. vb. To dye fabric using the wax-resist method.
WordNet
n. a dyed fabric; a removable wax is used where the dye is not wanted
v. dye with wax; "Indonesian fabrics are often batiked"
Wikipedia
Batik (; ) is a technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to whole cloth, or cloth made using this technique. Batik is made either by drawing dots and lines of the resist with a spouted tool called a canting (, also spelled tjanting), or by printing the resist with a copper stamp called a cap (, also spelled tjap). The applied wax resists dyes and therefore allows the artisan to colour selectively by soaking the cloth in one colour, removing the wax with boiling water, and repeating if multiple colours are desired.
A tradition of making batik is found in various countries, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Philippines and Nigeria; the batik of Indonesia, however, is the best-known. Indonesian batik made in the island of Java has a long history of acculturation, with diverse patterns influenced by a variety of cultures, and is the most developed in terms of pattern, technique, and the quality of workmanship. On October 2009, UNESCO designated Indonesian batik as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
Batik is a pure- Java library that can be used to render, generate, and manipulate SVG graphics. (SVG is an XML markup language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics.) IBM supported the project and then donated the code to the Apache Software Foundation, where other companies and teams decided to join efforts. Batik provides a set of core modules that provide functionality to:
- Render and dynamically modify SVG content,
- Transcode SVG content to some raster Graphics file formats, such as PNG, JPEG and TIFF,
- Transcode Windows Metafiles to SVG (WMF or Windows Metafile Format is the vector format used by Microsoft Windows applications),
- And manage scripting and user events on SVG documents.
The Batik distribution also contains a ready-to-use SVG browser (called Squiggle) making use of the above modules.
The name of the library comes from the Batik painting technique.
Batik is a textile coloring technique.
Batik may also refer to:
- Batik (software), a software library
- A city in Morocco
- Batik, a Malaysian island
Batik is an album by guitarist Ralph Towner recorded in 1978 and released on the ECM label.
Usage examples of "batik".
I see myself that first day, sitting cross-legged on a batik floor pillow, drinking green tea out of a fired raku cup, and looking up at Zora with my big, hopeful, curious, attentive eyes.
He spread out Malay batiks and handwoven goods and threw laces and silks over the backs of the chairs, meanwhile telling her where he had found one piece or another, how he had haggled over it and purchased it for a song.
He could remember Mayor Bastable on more than one occasion, crunching out through a snowy December morning, fishing pole in hand, toward the icy batiks of the Oriel.
They saw a gramophone, a stack of records and a low bed covered with a batik cloth.
Larsen and three of his young men Ushered Benedict out through the glass doors of the batik and across the pavement to where the Rolls stood in the reserved parking bay in Adderley Street.
Dark, neatly ironed slacks and a sports shirt bearing a batik pattern.