Camilla Morrison
  • About
  • Costume Design
    • Peter and the Starcatcher
    • Trojan Women
    • Something Rotten!
    • The Rainbow Fish Musical
    • The Music Man
    • The Tempest
    • Spelling Bee
    • Steel Magnolias
    • Seussical
    • The Importance of Being Earnest
    • The Moors
    • The Cake
    • Vieux Carre
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream - North Dakota Shakespeare Festival
    • Pump Boys and Dinettes
    • Silent Sky
    • Much Ado About Nothing
    • Noises Off
    • Hangar Theatre Design Fellowship
    • Ten Mile Lake
    • Passage to you
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream
    • Sweeney Todd
    • Antigone
    • Moon in My Memory
    • The Lovely Step Sister
    • Stick Fly
    • Grace
    • Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play
    • Speech and Debate
    • The Wizard of Oz
    • The Wolves
    • The Dance Class
    • Physical Theatre Showcase 2015
    • Carrie the Musical
    • Swine Palace Summerfest 2013
    • The Happy Elf
    • Psycho Beach Party
  • Costume Technology
    • Draper
    • Airbrush
    • Batik
    • Casting and Latex Prosthetics
    • Dancewear
    • Distressing
    • Dyeing Techniques
    • Fabric Painting
    • Marbling
    • Millinery
    • Pattern Drafting
    • Screen Printing
    • Silk Painting
    • Stamping and Using a Stencil
    • Tambour Beading
    • Transferring an Image to Fabric
    • Using Silicon with Fabric
    • Ventilation
    • Wig Styling
  • My Studio
    • NDCA Individual Artist Fellowship: Of the Earth
    • Nightmares are Dreams, Too
    • Large Scale Silk Painting

Batik

Batik is a fabric modification process that includes using wax as a resist agent.  Typically more than one color is used in the Batik process, with potentially different areas of the design being covered in wax to prevent that particular area from being dyed in that particular step.  There are special tools that can be used in Batik, including a metal "stamp" called a tjap.  I enjoyed testing many different ways of using a tjap, and although I have not yet perfected the technique of getting a detailed stamp of wax, the tjap still created an interesting design.  Water soluble wax in batik proved to be very difficult to use due to it's extremely slow melting process and thick wax.  This wax also melted during the first dye bath, so did not prove to be a successful resist.  Soy wax was a much easier wax to use with a faster ability to melt, easier to paint onto the fabric, and it rinsed out of the fabric with hot water.  Soy wax should be used with cold water dyes.  Fabric should be completely dried before more wax is applied to the design and dyed again.  Batik takes some time, but proves beautiful results.
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  • About
  • Costume Design
    • Peter and the Starcatcher
    • Trojan Women
    • Something Rotten!
    • The Rainbow Fish Musical
    • The Music Man
    • The Tempest
    • Spelling Bee
    • Steel Magnolias
    • Seussical
    • The Importance of Being Earnest
    • The Moors
    • The Cake
    • Vieux Carre
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream - North Dakota Shakespeare Festival
    • Pump Boys and Dinettes
    • Silent Sky
    • Much Ado About Nothing
    • Noises Off
    • Hangar Theatre Design Fellowship
    • Ten Mile Lake
    • Passage to you
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream
    • Sweeney Todd
    • Antigone
    • Moon in My Memory
    • The Lovely Step Sister
    • Stick Fly
    • Grace
    • Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play
    • Speech and Debate
    • The Wizard of Oz
    • The Wolves
    • The Dance Class
    • Physical Theatre Showcase 2015
    • Carrie the Musical
    • Swine Palace Summerfest 2013
    • The Happy Elf
    • Psycho Beach Party
  • Costume Technology
    • Draper
    • Airbrush
    • Batik
    • Casting and Latex Prosthetics
    • Dancewear
    • Distressing
    • Dyeing Techniques
    • Fabric Painting
    • Marbling
    • Millinery
    • Pattern Drafting
    • Screen Printing
    • Silk Painting
    • Stamping and Using a Stencil
    • Tambour Beading
    • Transferring an Image to Fabric
    • Using Silicon with Fabric
    • Ventilation
    • Wig Styling
  • My Studio
    • NDCA Individual Artist Fellowship: Of the Earth
    • Nightmares are Dreams, Too
    • Large Scale Silk Painting