China Seas Fabric: New Batik – Custom Salmon / New Brown on Vellum Suncloth (OUTDOOR)

Description

Batik begins with wax. A craftsman draws in hot wax on cloth by hand, or through a copper stamp called a canting and then dyes the fabric. The wax resists the dye. The wax is removed. What remains is a negative image of extraordinary precision, built from the logic of absence.

The Dutch colonized Java for three centuries partly because of batik. They took it home, called it “Indian” print, and sold it to Europeans who had no idea where it came from. The Javanese kept making it anyway.

This is New Batik: the medallion geometry of that tradition, handprinted in New Jersey on Belgian acrylic ground, in a custom salmon and brown that exists in this lot and nowhere else. Outdoor-rated. Chlorine-resistant. Eighteen-inch repeat.

The wax is gone. The pattern remains.

Suncloth is a synthetic fabric designed for more rugged use. While it is suitable for outdoors, please note that continuous exposure to direct sun and / or chlorinated water will cause fading.

Please note that colors may not represent accurately in photo. Additional photo(s) provided to show scale, not colorway. All sales are final, and we do not send cuttings for approval.