What is batik?

Discover what batik is, where it originated, and begin to learn the techniques needed to make your own batik fabric.

Teaching Outcomes:

• Recap on the many reasons for changes in British clothing over the past 1000 years and explore the influence of the fabric art of batik.
• Explore the technique of wax resist on paper using wax crayons and watercolour paints considering the effect of blending adjoining colours on the colour wheel.
• Experiment with batik techniques using a canting tool and melted wax on cotton fabric.

Children will:

• Learn what is meant by batik, what it looks like and how it is done.
• Learn how the technique of wax resist on paper is very similar to batik.
• Explore different effects using wax resist.
• Understand the colour wheel and how adjoining colours can blend to give a pleasing effect.
• Experiment with a canting tool and melted wax on a piece of practice fabric to learn batik techniques.

• Managing batik in the classroom
• Exploring wax resist effects
• Colour wheel reference
• What is batik?
• Learning batik techniques through wax resist on paper

• Two or three batik kettles
• Canting tools
• Wax pellets for melting
• A rectangle of cotton fabric per child (about 50cm x 30cm)
• Watercolour paint pallets, mixing pallets, paintbrushes, water pots
• A5 paper
• Chunky wax crayons in a variety of colours including white

There are no weblinks needed for this session.