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Original Post by THE BEADING GEM
fascinating!
ReplyDeleteI admit to a huge fascination with batik work. I've always admired the results and can usually pick the process out on fabrics. To see it done on polymer clay is wonderful!
ReplyDeleteI love batik fabric. It makes beautiful quilts. Hungary also has a cottage industry that makes what is called "blue print" or kekfesto fabric. They, too, use a wax relief to create a design, however, they create geometric patterns by driving nails into a piece of wood in a particular pattern. They dip the ends of the nails in a molten wax and then transfer it to a white piece of fabric. After the was is dried, they dye the fabric in a blue dye. The industry is dying because since it is usually a family industry, the younger people are abandoning the practice. I was able to buy just enough fabric to make a medium sized quilt. Unfortunately it is sold in square meters which made it difficult to cut out the proper size and shape of the quilt pieces.
ReplyDeleteThat is fascinating! I did not know about kekfesto fabric.
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