Batik art with Shirlyn Low

Everyone enjoyed this workshop with Shirlyn. First we chose a design to trace onto fabric. Then we stretched it tight into an embroidery hoop. The hardest part was drawing over our traced design with hot wax from a tjanting. It was much more difficult than it looked. There were different sized tjantings to choose from, the wax had to be hot enough and you had to be careful not to touch the fabric with the bowl of the tjanting otherwise you would get blobs (many of us did!) Then the dye was painted in after Shirlyn checked that our lines had no gaps to let the dye escape into a different area. We mixed our own colours and this was the most fun part of the workshop. 

​As you can see everyone had a finished piece of artwork to take home. 

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