At Best Batik, we sell only genuine hand drawn batik.

Batik drawing is the process of waxing and dyeing cloth by human hands using wax-resist and dye techniques. All the designs you find in Best Batik are uniquely drawn. They are painted in wax by hand with a tool known as the canting. The canting consists of a small copper cup on top of a wooden handle with a spout through which melted wax can flow out onto the cloth. Usually, the cloth is nailed onto a wooden frame according to the length of the cloth. Our Batik artists will then dip into the melted wax using the canting tool and begin drawing freely based on their creativity onto the cloth.

Once the artists have outlined the wax drawing, they start applying the dye. The core design of the batik will be painted with various colors. Usually, they start painting with the lightest colors towards the darkest colors onto the cloth. At last, the remaining spaces beside the core design will be applied with the same color through out the whole piece of cloth. When they are finished with the painting process, they put the fabric in boiling water and melt the wax off.

It is very easy to determine whether a batik is genuinely hand drawn. The color of genuine hand drawn batik will be exactly as vivid on both side of the cloth, whereas printed batik has only one side of the colorful drawings.