Batik art (3 Ergebnisse)

PAPERBACK. 1st edition. 38pp, staple bound, toned white wraps with blue/gray cover image. 1" scrape is peeled paper to front cover, toned wraps, tight binding, clean throughout, Very Good.

Copper batik wax stamping tool with handle 9 x 12 x 7cm, a little corroded, but the pad in very good condition, sold with a tjanting tool, bamboo handle and small removable copper spout, in very good condition. Purchased in Java in the 1970s by a social scientist with a career long interest in Indonesia.…

Copper batik wax stamping tool (tjap) mounted on teak, 18.7 x 30 cms (a few scratches to the teak), metal hook mounted on the verso, in very good condition. Appealing example of a tool used in Javanese batik art: the copper stamping tool (cap or tjap) with a geometric design framed and embedded in teak. The embedding of batik cap designs was developed by a craftsman ( later dubbed "The Cap Man") in Jakarta in the early 1970s, and in response to local demand and from the tourist trade. This example was acquired from him by a social scientist with a career long interest in Indonesia.…