In the business for more than a decade, Ahmad told The Jakarta Post that consumers were increasingly turning to batik-like fabrics as a cheaper option amid weakening spending power in the country.

Celebrated by designers, tastemakers, and pattern-lovers for centuries, batik is both a type of fabric and an ancient dyeing technique with a long and complicated history. Often grouped with other ...

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At Vulcan Post, we’ve featured quite a number of local batik brands like inisaya, KITA MADE, Spirit Animal Co., batikTEKTURA, and North Village Artisan Batik. Coupled with the countless other ...

TEMPO.CO, Yogyakarta - Head of Small Industry and Handicraft Committee Indonesian Textile Association, Jadin C. Jamaludin said protection and preservation of traditional batik are still weak. "The ...

JAKARTA -- If I had to choose a favorite textile, and a favorite place to admire its infinite forms, it would be Indonesia's traditional batik in Thamrin City, a windowless multilevel market in the ...

Ning Manli, a woman from east China's Anhui Province, has devoted her life to helping Miao women, in Danzhai (a county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, in southwest China's Guizhou ...

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia — Hadi Suwito quietly sits at his desk to oversee the daily operations of Batik Plentong, one of Yogyakarta’s surviving manufacturers of traditional batik textile. On the wall ...

Batik's journey to India can be attributed to the extensive trade routes and cultural exchanges that have characterized the country's history. As Indian traders engaged with various cultures, ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — As a child, Nonita Respati thought she’d grow up and go into a profession with a fancy title: doctor, economist, maybe political scientist. Fashion designer didn’t seem like a ...