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Luthrai — Dragon Batik
Published: 2006-05-15 16:10:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 3459; Favourites: 58; Downloads: 64
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...wasn't sure where, exactly, batiks were meant to be. So I'm guessing.This is about 6 or 7 years old, as I believe I did it in 10th grade or so. A room full of 15-17 year olds playing with dyes and hot wax- so much fun.
Ahm, I think it's a bit self explanatory. It's a batik. Of a dragon. The moon was fun.
(that little shiny thing down there in the right-hand corner is actually last year's Birka merchant medallion...I forgot to take it off... whoops.)
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I like to batik t-shirts. I don't suppose you know of any dyes that would work great for that had a bleeding issue with the last batch
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very nice batik! nice job!! 
come take a look at my batiks ...
and please tell me if you like them!
thanx, take care
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woah, that's amazing! We did batik in class and mine went all splotchy because the wax went everywhere. How did you keep yours so tidy?
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You know what? I don't know. I just remember spending far too many hours hunched over this, paintbrush in hand. I think this was one of those projects that I had to spend after-school time working on to finish. Not like I minded... It's art, after all. >^.-.^<
Thank you for the comment, though I'm sorry I can't answer the question.
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Haha, its fine! Maybe you just have some amazing innate affinity with wax 
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Yeah, we had crockpots of melted wax and paintbrushes. Granted, these paintbrushes were absolutely worthless for paint after being dipped in wax, but they worked great.
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Aww, man that's such a great idea! At our school we had to use the djanting tools which were really old and leaky... Haa, that explains it then!
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you got my comments earlier, totally awsome
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Wow, that looks awesome! The process you describe to make them reminds me of dying Easter eggs. Do you have to start with the lightest color and stuff too?
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Yeah, it is a lot like Easter eggs- I believe Pysanky eggs are made using the exact same method. 'Cause, yeah, if you're layering colours so you don't end up with a white (or otherwise cloth-coloured) line between then, you do have to start with the lightest colour first... I think it might just be common sense to do it that way. Maybe.
And thanks!
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I remember doing a batik.
It was ugly. I think I burned it.
This rocks, though. I'd kill to do something that good.
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...it must've burned well. Or at least interestingly. Yay fire.
I's glad you like. I always like looking at this to compare it to what I can do now - it hurts far less than looking at my dragons from that long ago.
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Very nice; reminds me of a stained-glass window. Never heard of a batik, though...what is it exactly?
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Ah, you should see it when it's hanging in the window. I don't do that often, though, as it makes it fade.
Um, yes, a batik. Pretty much, you're just dying a piece of cloth. But you're using melted wax to delineate where you want the dye to go. Do it right, and the wax seeps all the way through the cloth, so the dye can't bleed out of the space. You can do it in layers, too, for really awesome effects. You end up waxing the dyed portions you're finished with, then (we, at least) dying the rest of the cloth - which is what gives the crinkly effect. Then you just need to iron it a bazillion times to get the wax out. There's still wax in this one... makes it easier to fold, though. ^_^
If you look it up batik on wikipedia, y'get a much better idea of it, as well as some awesome pictures of what can be done with it.
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Mmm, sounds pretty interesting.
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