Batik and other pattern dyeing

by Walter Davis Baker; Ida Strawn Baker

The pattern on the left has a yellow gray background. The all-over dyeing is brown and the spottings dark red.

On the right the upper pattern has yellow gray in the background and brown decoration, the lower pattern has brown background and yellow gray decoration.

COSTUME JEWELRY

The band for this ornament, page [78], is made of several layers of georgette crepe picoted. It is ¾ inch wide and 1 yard long. The ornament, 1½ x 2³/₈ inches, was modeled from “petroplast,” the modeling clay which sets without firing.

BATIKED RIBBON, CAMISOLE, AND COSTUME JEWELRY

The silk was folded to four thicknesses. The wax was painted in a variety of interesting shapes on the white goods. Bands in red, yellow, green and orange were painted with dyes.

The petroplast was modeled smooth and the bird, flowers and pedestal were incised while the composition was still plastic. When dry it was dipped in black enamel. The outline of the bird was enameled in yellow and orange, the flowers painted in purple and blue, the pedestal in brown.