Batiks, and how to make them

by Pieter Mijer

On the other hand, if the buying public knows more about the work than it does now, if they know the time and the care it takes to make a good batik, then I am sure that their desire for good batik will increase and the manufactured product soon will be where the other manufactured arts have gone.

Before going on to the description of batik, I should like to say a word of thanks to Olive Earle, for valuable help. Also to “House and Garden” and “Elsevier’s Geill: Maandschrift” for their kindness in lending me some of the photographs used.

Pieter Mijer.

New York, April, 1919.

CONTENTS

	PAGE
Batik in Java	[1]
Batik in Holland	[24]
Utensils and Materials	[32]
Tjantings	[44]
The Batik Process	[50]
Successful Dyeing	[59]
The Value of a Dye Record	[77]

ILLUSTRATIONS

Chinese Screen Panel by Pieter Mijer and Emile Weeckers	Frontispiece
		FACING PAGE
Javanese Kain Kapala		[2]
Enlarged Detail of Native Sarong		[4]
Native Design Showing European Influence		[14]
Pure Native Design Adapted for European Use		[14]
Conventional Fish Design by Chris Lebeau		[26]
Geometrical Fish Design by Chris Lebeau		[28]
Stork Panel by Chris Lebeau		[30]
Flamingo Curtain by Pieter Mijer		[30]
The Use of Batik in Interior Decoration		[32]
Dyeing of Textile		[34]
Cleaning the Tjanting		[34]
Floral Design Entirely Executed with a Brush		[36]
Various Types of Tjantings		[46]
Scarf Batiked by Hazel Burnham Slaughter		[50]
The Right Way to Hold the Tjanting		[54]
The Use of the Brush for Filling Spaces		[54]
Tank for Separating Wax from Gasoline		[58]
“Spring” by C. Bertram Hartman and Pieter Mijer		[64]
By following the arrows in the above chart it willeasily be seen which colours should be mixed together in order toproduce a given colour and the various lengths of the connecting linesindicate about the proportion in which the dyes should be used		[68]
Successive Stages in the Making of a Batik		[74]
Successive Stages in the Making of a Batik		[76]
The Use of Batik for Costume		[78]
Sorceress by Arthur Crisp and Pieter Mijer		[80]

BATIKS, AND
HOW TO MAKE THEM

BATIKS, AND HOW TO MAKE THEM