Batik Modern Textile Art

Memory Garden by Juliet Boyle

Memory Garden by Juliet Bloye has some of the close-toned unity and twinkling pattern of traditional Javanese batiks. Her sequence of dyeing began with turquoise followed by pink, lemon yellow, chrome yellow, and finally a dark blue which was allowed to crackle through the very heavy wax layer.

The fabric was then dipped into another colourant, not a dye but a brentamine - Fast Black K Salt - a chemical which modifies all the previous Procion M dye-colours creating the muted brown effect characteristic of Javanese batik.

Michael O'Connell