“Bateeko Powder Dyes” are recommended for Batik work. These dyes can be prepared and kept in bottles in strong solution, ready for immediate use. It is not necessary to boil the goods in the dyes, as they work successfully in tepid water and without constant stirring. These dyes are recommended as unusually beautiful and brilliant, yet soft in tone.
Mr. Albert Buell Lewis, Assistant Curator of the Department of Anthropology in the Field Museum, Chicago, has furnished interesting historical data and supplied a number of illustrations from his private collection of “Batiks.”
Photographs have been kindly loaned by the following: The Art Institute of Chicago; Professor Albert W. Heckman of Teachers College, Columbia University; the “Keramic Studio;” the “Industrial Arts Magazine;” Mrs. Helen Reed of New York City; Mrs. Caroline Kohl; Miss Amy Swisher of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; Lieutenant Jean Paul Slusser of the U. S. General Hospital, Fort McHenry, Ind.; Miss Rose Buhlig of the Lindblom High School, Chicago; Miss Anna Tyrell.
The publishers are under special obligation to Miss Mary C. Scovel, Head of the Normal Department of the Art Institute of Chicago, who prepared the outline and first draft of this book, and gave many practical suggestions.
They would be glad to receive suggestions or interesting photographs of “Batik” suitable for use in connection with future editions of this book.
The Table of Contents
| PAGE | |
| The Preface | [5] |
| Chapter I. The History of Batik | [7] |
| Chapter II. The Method in Java | [10] |
| Chapter III. The Possibilities of Batik | [20] |
| Chapter IV. Processes of Batik Dyeing | [36] |
| Chapter V. Crackle in Batik | [44] |
| Chapter VI. Color and How to Use It | [50] |
| Chapter VII. “Tied and Dyed” Work | [60] |
| Chapter VIII. Dyeing Suggestions | [74] |
“THE CASTLE,” A BATIK WALL HANGING. BY WINOLD REISS