Making Batik in Java

Duration: 12 min

Genre: Art

Creator: Burton Holmes

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: Silent

Description: A complete study of the batik craft. Weaving, decorative processes, and the finished product. The innate artistic bent of the Javanese people finds expression in this unique form of decoration of their simple garments. Methods have changed hardly at all in centuries, a fine example of application of native materials to native art.

Metadata Source:Bell & Howell Filmosound Library Catalog of Educational Motion Pictures, 1942