“A TABLE BEFORE ME”
This decoration was drawn on glazed paper and pounced on white china silk, 40 x 72 inches. There was no painting of colors, the process being one of dippings only.
The design was outlined in wax. The small spottings, border lines and markings in the vine were stopped out, and the piece was dipped in a yellow dye-bath.
Through each dipping a dye record was kept by carrying a small piece of the goods through the dye-bath. After each dyeing the wax was carefully mended.
A WALL HANGING WITH BATIKED FRAME
The bell-like flowers in bands or borders, the flowers at the foot of the vine, the body, wing, tail and lower part of the bird’s legs, tendrils, dragon fly and border were stopped out, and the piece dyed orange.
The remaining bands and shapes in the flowers, inside and outside border, and tendrils were stopped out and the next dipping was blue. The background and remaining shapes were a lovely warm gray lavender.
Part of the leaves, head of the bird, upper part of the bird’s legs, shapes in the foreground, and roots of the vine were stopped out. The next dyeing was blue.
The vine, remaining leaves, tendrils, the remainder of the foreground and spaces that were needed to fill in were drawn in wax.
The wax was removed from the wing and the tail of the bird and the batik dipped in a dye-bath of deep blue.
The color range in this piece includes red-orange, yellow, blue, turquoise, two shades of lavender, green and sparkles of white broken by every color, on a gray-blue background.
The work on this batik extended over a period of two weeks.