Batik - known since ancient times, the art of art, hand painted fabrics, spread from the East. The same name is painted in such a way the fabric. The term comes from the Malay language: it is considered the birthplace of batik - Indonesia. The painting is done by a variety of colors and reserve - a special composition, applied to distinguish the painted areas. Depending on the composition of the reserve, the type of fabric and technique of creating batik pattern is hot, cold and nodular.
The oldest - hot batik on cotton fabric using wax as a reserve (one of the translations of the word "batik" - "a drop of wax"). In batik, the "young", colors are reserved (protected against staining) compositions based on gasoline and rubber, applied through the glass tubes or tubes with long noses. The painting is being aniline dyes, often on silk. Almost simultaneously with the hot originated nodular batik, known techniques such his performance as "bandanas", "Plange", "bandha", "ikat", "tritik" and others. There is a Japanese variety - "Shibori" in it to backup and racking Various methods of folding added. There are also various methods of free painting fabric.