We started our journey to the batik factory around 9.00 in the morning. We took a tour bus there with the photocopy of our designs , pencils and our beginner level skills. It was around 45 minutes ride and the tour guide was very kind to explain what we would be doing when we get there.
As this is the first time I went to a batik gallery or workshop, I was super duper excited. :D
So let's back to work! :)
The first process was sketching the designs onto the fabric using pencil. We used masking tapes to stuck our designs under the batik so that we could trace it out the outline.
done tracing it!
The next step is waxing the outline. The people at there are nice that they were helping us scooping the hot wax.
Putting the wax part is the hardest process among all since the wax was in liquid form, we have to control how much we need to put on the fabric. We need to change the wax often too as it dried out too fast because we have to work on it when the wax was in liquid form. We need to have a very steady hand while doing this, if not.. it can ruin everything! There shouldn't left any gap for the outline because the color will go all over if there's no wax.
After completed waxing the outline, the next step is applying colors that we had decided onto the cloth. We need to be very careful and steady because we cannot allow any mistakes to happen and if it did happen, we can't redo it or undo it.
June is very very concentrate and focus..
in-progressing..
These were the outcomes;
I didn't take picture of Jia Ni's pattern because during that time, she was having a critical moments.
All in all, we made it till the end and faced a lot of problems along the way. It requires a great amount of skills, patience and experiences to make it. We had a lot of fun.
Ms.Lisa also created one of her own batik design. It was very neat and nice what Ms.Lisa did. As expected, Ms.Lisa are a professional in anything! :)
The scene of doing Batik assignment.
And we went back to campus with colorful hand. :)
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