A Javanese Batik design from the Metropolitan Museum, New York

A Batik Memorial Hanging, by Jean Paul Slusser

An unusual piece of Samarang Batik in the American Museum of Natural History, New York

CHAPTER VI
COLOR AND HOW TO USE IT

For those who have not had an opportunity of studying color, the following explanation of the theory of mixing colors may not be amiss.

Yellow, red, and blue are called the standard or primary colors. From these we make the three binary or secondary colors, orange, green, and violet.