Malaysian Batik: Reinventing a Tradition

batik77Malaysian Batik: Reinventing a Tradition, traces the history of batik, the materials, methods and motifs of the block-stamped and hand drawn methods, and the ways in whichThe term batik was believed to have been coined from these Javanese words; ambatik or e suffix tik in each word translates to creating little dots. Currently, the batik industry in Malaysia and Indonesia is