Ever seen Indonesian batik cloth? Here's the marvelous tool that helps create its detailed designs: the cap (pronounced "chop"), or batik press. A copper implement about six inches square, it is heated and pressed onto white cloth coated with a layer of wax. The cap pushes the wax out of the way, leaving its pattern on the cloth. Dye is applied, coloring the waxless pattern.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Batik cap
Ever seen Indonesian batik cloth? Here's the marvelous tool that helps create its detailed designs: the cap (pronounced "chop"), or batik press. A copper implement about six inches square, it is heated and pressed onto white cloth coated with a layer of wax. The cap pushes the wax out of the way, leaving its pattern on the cloth. Dye is applied, coloring the waxless pattern.
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