A batik is a time -consuming painting of fabric, as a result of which unique products of extraordinary beauty appear. The article describes the most popular types and technology of the batik.
Seeing once a marvelous painting on the fabric, it will not be possible to forget it. The originality of motives combined with the complexity of execution express the inner views and mood of the master. At the same time, connoisseurs and owners of exclusive things painted in the batik technique emphasize their personality and good taste.
Batik
What is a batik - definition, views
Batik ( "Batik" - A drop of wax, ind.) - painting on fabric, is performed manually. This type of creativity, widespread in China, India, Japan and African countries, gains popularity in Europe. More and more modern needlewomen choose this unusual, but very exciting activity - painting of fabric.
The implementation technique is based on the principle of strokes using special paint of individual sections of silk, cotton, synthetic or woolen fabric pre -treated with paraffin, rubber glue, or other reservative composition.
Batik - manual painting
The first fabrics painted in the Batik technique appeared in the 4th century BC. The ancient Egyptians buried the mummies wrapped in these amazing beauty of matter.
Types of Batik:
Cold batik - The reservation composition is applied along the contour and left for drying. Then the drawing is painted with special colors. The safest way.
Hot batik - The molten wax is applied to the fabric and after its hardening the pattern is painted with different colors.
Free painting - Preliminary reservation is not performed, paints with a thickening are used in the work.
Knot batik - nodules are tied on the fabric and twist it before staining. This allows you to get unusual stains and patterns.
Shibori (Sibory) - a drawing obtained as a result of staining the folded fabric. Japanese image application technique.
Cold batik
Indonesia is a country of hot batik. With the help of molten wax, women create huge paintings that have, according to the Indonesians, healing and magical properties.
In Nigeria, the batik gained popularity in the middle of the 20th century. The technology of the African batik (Adira) consists in applying the starch solution with feathers of starch and subsequent coloring of the pattern in the color of the indigo. Also in Nigeria, a nodal method of staining tissue is often used.
What is needed for the batik: fabric, frame, paint
In order to engage in a batik, you will need such materials, tools and devices:
Fabric for painting (silk, synthetics, wool, satin, viscose).
Schools for embroidery (for small areas), frames, subframes, buttons for fixing the material in the frame.
Brushes of different thicknesses with synthetic and natural bristles. For large drawings - flats, for painting - round.
A set of colors (thermal fixed and “under the steaming”), pipettes, sprayers, special glass tubes.
Lacks and chanting necessary while working with hot wax.
Stamps, copy paper sheets, stencils, contour pencils and mixtures, an disappearing marker.
Grounding compounds, effects of salts, wax reserves, contours.
A hairdryer with a cold drying mode.
Important: Silk paints have a Silk marking. They are more fluid and transparent than textile paints indicated by Textile.
What do you need for a batik?
Cold Batik: Technique for Beginners
Those who decided to do a cold batik, it is necessary to cook:
pathed and ironed fabric (silk or cotton)
acrylic paints or gouache
reservative composition, glass tube for its application and sprint
pieces or subframe
natural or synthetic brushes, water and napkins for cleaning them
palette for mixing and breeding paints
stencil
Important: in order to gently dial, and then apply, reserve, lower the glass tube into the “nose”. At this time, on the other side of it, insert a sprint, by clicking on which it will be possible to adjust the amount of liquid applied and secreted.
Cold Batik: Technique
After the tools are prepared, you can get to work:
Fasten the fabric on the frame or hoop so that it is tightly stretched.
Apply a pattern to a pencil to the fabric (you can use stencils and templates).
Carefully repeat the circuit using a reservoir. Make sure that the circuit is not interrupted, and the reservoir is well absorbed into the fabric.
Leave for 1 hour to dry.
Check the circuit for integrity, correct, if there are flaws, leave for final drying.
While the circuit is dry, rinse the tube with gasoline and leave to dry.
Apply paint to the drawing. First of all, light colors are applied, then darker. At the same time, both concentrated and diluted paint are used.
Remove excess moisture from painted large parts of the picture using a dry cotton drive.
Leave the drawing for a day for drying.
Remove from the frame.
Important: if the picture hangs on the wall, you can start it immediately after it dries. If the thing is intended for socks on the body, the batik must be pre -fixed and treated with steam.
Cold batik for beginners
Video: Cold batik technology for beginners
Video: Master - Maki class. Panel in the technique of a cold batik on cotton
Hot batik: technique for beginners
Hot batik It is performed using a preheated reserve composition. Using it, the contour is applied and individual elements of the picture are covered to prevent paint spreading. The reserve composition can be prepared independently according to one of the recipes:
Except for a reserve composition, prepare such materials and tools:
textile
hot batik paints
brushes
palette
piece or hoop
water
iron
old newspapers
Hot batik
Progress:
Draw a sketch on paper.
Tighten the fabric in the hooks or on the subframe.
Transfer the pattern to the fabric.
Using the finished reserve composition, those places in the figure that must be left not painted.
Cover with the dyes of light shades of the elements of the picture.
Leave for drying.
Cover with a reserve composition painted with light tones of the figure.
Use darker tones in your work.
Leave it again for drying, then cover the drawn parts with a reserve composition.
Apply the darkest colors, dry the pattern and completely cover it with a reservation wax composition.
Remove the work from the subframe.
Remove the layer by layer from the pattern, ironing with a hot iron between the newspaper sheets.
Prepare the finished work in the frame.
Important: newspapers for ironing the batik should be old. If you use fresh newspapers, the work can be ruined by newspaper lines printed on the fabric.
Removing wax from the finished batik
Video: Master - class. Hot batik
Knot batik: technique for beginners
The principle of node batik is mechanical tissue reservation. On the bends and in the nodes, matter either does not paint at all, or is painted in a lighter shade. The technique of nodular batik is available to everyone. It is not at all necessary to have artistic skills in order to engage in this fascinating type of fabric painting.
Materials and accessories:
cotton fabric is light
aniline dyes for fabrics
dense thread, rope, tourniquet or cord
palette
turning capacity
spatula for stirring
Knot batik
All work in node technology consists of three stages:
Stage 1. Prepare the fabric for staining in one way:
sew
tie
twist
fold
bend
Important: inside nodules and bends you can place buttons, pebbles, shells and other small objects. The effect of such experiments can be completely unexpected.
Stage 2. Lower the prepared fabric into a container with a diluted dye. If you want to get smooth blurry transitions of the color, first moisten the fabric. To form harsh color boundaries, leave the matter dry.
Important: staining is carried out, following the instructions of the instructions for the paint. Some manufacturers recommend that you pre -immerse the tissue in a boiling salt solution, but only after it boils, gradually introduced the dye into salt water.
Stage 3. After the matter is painted, rinse it under running water. The first time with nodules, then untie them.
Important: the selected reservation method determines the final pattern, which will turn out as a result of the work.
Knock batik: technique of execution
Video: Master - class in nodule batik, spiral pattern
Bath painting, painting on fabric, silk - paintings, panels
Batik technique allows you to create real masterpieces, which later serve as a decoration of apartments and houses. Pictures and panels made in various ways can become a highlight of any interior, and bright colors and outlandish patterns can revive even the most stringent environment.
