[MR] Batik

[Brett W. McCoy]

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Gina MacNeill wrote:

> Barkeep, I have a question for the patrons of this fine establishment!
>
> Is Batik "period"?

I think it's period in the sense that it was done in Java during the
Middle Ages.  Whether anyone in Europe or the Middle East had contact with
the Javanese and brought Batik back to somewhere it may have been used in
period is another story.  However, it's likely that similar techniques
(covering cloth with wax and then dying to dye certain patterns into the
cloth) were most likely known in India and the Middle East in period, they
just may not have been called 'batik', which is an Indonesian term that
means 'to dot'.

-- Istvan
(who will also note that there is a library for the Java programming
language for producing scalar vector graphics called Batik, which
literally makes Batik OOP :-) )

                                          http://www.chapelperilous.net/
------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced
in it.  People in disguise speak freely.