African batik art is a traditional textile technique that uses wax and dye to create intricate patterns on fabric ...

Blue is the color for February at the Butterfield Garage Art Gallery, which will feature indigo batiks by Cindy Wilson. The show, titled “Midnight in the Garden of Indigo,” results from Wilson’s ...

Batik artist Jezima Mohammed holds a framed photo of the late Queen Elizabeth II, who is wearing a white and baby pink scarf she designed and sent via post to Buckingham Palace, in Matara, Sri Lanka, ...

Before you start creating batik art, it is important to prepare the fabric well. Start by washing the fabric to remove any ...

Mary Edna Fraser is an internationally recognized batik artist and printmaker. Her large scale work and monotypes were featured at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in 1994-1995 in "Aerial ...

FISHERSVILLE — Roots, leaves, hands and vibrant colors covered a canvas at Wilson Memorial High School. Students carefully outlined and painted the Batik art piece with the guidance of Nicholas ...

The New York Times' classic slogan reads: "All the News That's Fit to Print." For artist Chuck Kaiser, that slogan might read: "All the News That's Fit to Wax and Dye." Kaiser, a Lancaster artist ...

Duke University geologist Orrin Pilkey has fought for years against excessive human development of U.S. barrier islands such as North Carolina's Outer Banks, producing many books and articles about ...

Florals and silk will be the hightlights of a new batik exhibit at the Quad City Botanical Center, and the artist himself will visit the center Tuesday to share his work. A reception for ...

In the mid-1960s, the Indonesian art form of batik was swiftly gaining exposure in East Africa. But so were the political ambitions of Idi Amin, the Ugandan dictator responsible for thousands of ...