Batik: Fabled Cloth of Java (First Edition)

Batik: Fabled Cloth of Java (First Edition)
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$120.00

Product Description

The exotic textiles of Java have intrigued the outside world for the past 150 years. Batik, the legendary fiber art of painting and dyeing fabrics using a waxing process, has been influenced by cultures as diverse as the Chinese, Indians, Arabs, Portuguese, Dutch, and English. Like no other book before it, Batik takes the reader on a spellbinding tour of Java, revealing batik’s history, motifs, and methods of production.

About the Author Inger McCabe Elliott, founder and president of China Seas, Inc., the award-winning fabric design firm, was born in Norway, graduated from Cornell University, and received her M.A. in history from Radcliffe College. She has traveled extensively throughout Europe and Asia as a photojournalist for publications including Newsweek and The New York Times. She lives in New York City and Stonington, Connecticut, with her husband and children.

Batik: Fabled Cloth of Java

Authors: Elliott, Inger McCabe Brake, Brian

Format/binding: Hardcover

Book condition: Very Fine

Jacket condition: Very Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

ISBN 10: 0517551551

ISBN 13: 9780517551554

Publisher: Clarkson Potter

Date published: 1984