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ADIRE & BATIK

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  B atik is a technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to the whole cloth.This technique originated from the island of Java, Indonesia.  Batik is made either by drawing dots and lines of the resist with a spouted tool called a canting, or by printing the resist with a copper stamp called a cap. 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. Batik as it own uniqueness.  atik can be term or relate traditional Atire which can aslo be found in some part of Africa. In general, there are two categories of batik design: geometric motifs (which tend to be the earlier designs) and free form designs, which are based on stylized patterns of natural forms or imitations of a woven texture. Many people wearing batik to show how they do appreciate and belong to a culture. Batik also gives other spirit of nationalism which represent in Batik Nationa