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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

If you associate batik with wild-printed scarves and skirts sold at street markets, you have been missing out on the wonderful applications this art form offers. My recommendation is to immediately ...

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 ...

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 ...

"I'm waxing the areas I want to keep white in the pattern that I'm choosing," Annie Phillips says softly as she paints wax onto white fabric. "Now I'm dyeing the fabric yellow. And you can see the ...

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 ...