The most common to both countries is the BATIK, The term batik is an Indonesian-Malay word, believe to be related to the Malay word TITIK, which means point, dot, or drop. The drop refers to the process of dyeing the fabric by making use of a resist technique; covering areas of cloth with a dye resistant substance usually wax to prevent absorbing colors. The technique was taught thousand of years ago.
Two batik designs
1. geometric design - modern designs usually depend on the creativity of the designers
2. free form design - naturalistic motifs are leaves, flowers, birds
Malaysia and Singapore batiks produced
1. hand painted - the artist uses canting, a small copper container with one or more different sized pipes
2. block printed - done by wielding together strips of metal to form a metal block. The metal is dipped in molten wax and pressed against the fabric to make a pattern
Leaves and flowers in Malaysian batiks are incorporated to avoid interpretation of human and animal idolatry., in accordance to their Islamic doctrine. This features look like to that of Indonesia
Brunei
thier traditional textile is also BATIK byut uniquely different from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Its designs have their national flower simpur, sumboi - sumboi (pitcher plant), air muleh
different techniques are used in Brunei's batik like airbrusing, cracking, bubble, rainbow, sprinkle, geometry, and marble. It used to make apply batik in different kinds of fabrics.
Batik can be done in four ways
1. hand drawn
2. using metal blocks
3. screen printing
4. digital printing
this is a great help thank you very much
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