Batik Modern Textile Art
Nineteenth Century
This nineteenth-century batik borrows its meandering scroll and spiral motif from Chinese painted
screens and heavily embroidered fabrics. Neither China nor Japan had a distinct batik tradition and their craftsmen
developed techniques which imitated the designs and texture of more fashionable mediums such as weaving, ceramics
and lacquer-work.
Portrait Batik by Deryck Henley
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