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BATIK, the intricate and vibrant textile art, holds a cherished place in Malaysian culture. Its history and evolution weave a ...

Batik: Breathing New Life into Malaysian Dyeing Art Decked in batik blouses and sarongs, four teenage girls stride down a fashion show catwalk, seemingly straight out of a village in this ...

Hanya Batik, a new digital art show at RXP.KL’s immersive theatre space in Kuala Lumpur, comes just in time for the Merdeka and Malaysia Day season. It also paves the way for new career ...

Margherita called batik, a prominent textile art, an area of immense potential for collaboration to further promote shared art works between India and Malaysia.. In a post on X, he said, "Just ...

Amran stumbled into the colourful world of batik art when he was 18 years old, after attending his first batik workshop in 1997, organised by PERDA (Lembaga Kemajuan Wilayah Pulau Pinang). It was ...

Batik, that wretched medium that plagued many of our school years, has actually been quite a pivotal one in Malaysian art. Linked closely with our region’s arts ...

Award-winning comic book artist and illustrator Arif Rafhan Othman, also known as Superdoofus, is set to take his artwork to the big screen with an upcoming digital art production. The new project ...

Yet, the practice of traditional batik-making itself can be said to be fading out of existence. For one, there aren’t as many batik crafters in Malaysia as there used to be because of how ...

In Malaysia, new batik-making methods evolved out of the Javanese tradition. Around the 17th century, Malaysian artisans began making patterned fabrics featuring larger, less intricate floral motifs.