We pre-soaked fabric in soda ash then used tjantings, empty thread spools, tjaps, luffas, and potato mashers to make our resist patterns. After the soy wax dried, we painted over the fabric with dyes thickened with sodium alginate. The fabrics were laid out in the sun to dry.
One of Martha's.
Mine.
Some of the fabrics were then reprinted with more soy wax and painted with a different color dye and dried again.
Martha's
Mine
Not always wanting white fabric showing, we tried previously hand dyed fabric. This gave a different starting point.
Martha's
Mine
At the end of the day we had some great fabrics. Will definitely do some more batiking before summers end.
