The result is a ground color of rich, beautiful brown. In the tied spots are bands of gold, of orange-red, of yellow-green and of brown, also a brown center. Along the edges of these bands the colors have crept in, one here and another there, to produce a beautiful iridescence. The same colors are repeated in the borders.
The lining of the jacket, page [121], is a beautiful piece of stick tying on pongee silk. The colors here are yellow, green and grayed purple, as well as the original color of the pongee. These were three dye-baths, yellow, blue and red.
CHAPTER VII
STICK PRINTING, BLOCK PRINTING AND STENCIL DYEING
IT has been seen how versatile the batik method is as a means of illuminating fabrics, also how design is the controlling element in all good batik work. In both the space and color relations the batik worker has control of the entire surface subject only to the limitations imposed by the mediums in which he is working.
It follows that a knowledge of the principles of design must underlie good batik work as well as a knowledge of dyes.