The substitution of wax with non-wax resist agent for hand drawn batik (extended to screen printing) / Wan Yunus Wan Ahmad, Jamil Salleh and Ponirin Amin

• Main Authors: Wan Ahmad, Wan Yunus, Salleh, Jamil, Amin, Ponirin
• Format: Research Reports
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Chemical engineering; Textile bleaching, dyeing, printing, etc.; Painting, varnishing, gilding, etc.
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/49555/1/49555.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/49555/

Malaysian batiks and wax are co-existing together for a long time. The word batik has come to be used as a generic term, which refers to the process of printing fabric, by using wax as a resist agent that started over 1,500 years ago. Other source claimed that the batik using wax started about 2,500...