Wearable Art

The meaning of batik is painting.It is Javanese word which had been adopted for a  word of Indonesian language ,which to day this word became internationally known for a work of functional and wearable art.Traditionally  painting ,batik had difference characters between  territory in the expression of its patern and design.
When I passed by a junior high school,watching some students they were immersing fabric in a plastic container  to dye with coloring substance ,I didn't know exactly what kind of substance they had been instructed to use ,but i guessed,it could be synthesized dye water soluble reactant.I noticed their result of work which is similar with batik only the way they did technically is not the same with traditional batik in Java.
Javanese's traditional batik, they use melting mixture paraffin and bees wax for covering patern line and napthol salt to color and apply it by using what we call canting.They paint it paintstakingly detailed which its motive and patern expression appear in accordance with the traditional, territory  where they are living.
Now batik is spreading all over the countries to be an art and craft commodity in various kind of individual style of expression,which had been done in different way and technic by artist and crafter for art work.Although the word of batik become obscure people will recognize it from the character of traditional patern and design not from the way or technic they develope it.