About batik








Design tissue methods of cold, hot and decorative batik.
Method of cold batik is this fabric with thread or safety pins fastened to the frame or inserted into the embroidery frame. Pencil on tissue contour drawing. Necessary for the number of reserve transferred to a glass or porcelain intermediate tank. Then suck the pear into a tube reserve. Referring to the end of the tube fabric, pencil should be applied to the reserve structure. An obligatory condition is a closed loop, otherwise the paint for the Batik will be distributed on a fabric, giving a shapeless stain. After drawing back of the fabric should dry a little on the air until it is completely dry (at least 40-50 minutes), and then check the integrity and reliability of the circuit. To do this, separate closed-loop parts of tissue with a brush cause water containing 1 -2 drops of shampoo or liquid soap. If the reserve of negligently caused, after 2-3 minutes of water seeping through the gaps in the loop and denote them dark spots abroad reserve. In this case, you need a pencil mark the place of violation, dry cloth (you can use a hair dryer) and apply again the composition of the reserve, but it is better to reverse side of fabric. Make sure the pool you can start to paint.
Dye solutions for batik, have a very high concentration. For their dilution to prepare a solution of baking soda. For dilution of yellow, red, blue and green



colors should dissolve one teaspoon of baking soda in a glass of warm boiled water to dilute black dye - half a teaspoon. Before working solutions of sodium and colors are mixed in a ratio of 1:1.
Dyes for Batik unlimited mix among themselves and with sodium carbonate solution. However, ready-made solutions with soda should not store more than two days.
Diluted dye solution is applied to fabric with a brush or cotton balls, wound by a wooden stick. Typically, paints bright picture elements, and then the darker part of it. Mortar easily conveyed over the fabric, but when painting large surfaces (fringe scarf, background) and, especially, when working on natural silk should be evenly wipe the entire surface of a piece of wet cotton wool.
After drying, the work should be removed from the frame and be treated with steam. For it is wrapped in cloth or paper (but) so that the colored part of it do not touch each other. The work can be added arbitrarily. Steaming can be carried out in a large pot, bucket or tank, which bottom bay water (the thickness of the layer of water is not more than 5 cm). From handle to handle tank stretch a rope of synthetic yarn, which hung stringed bundle with work. The lid tank top and
bottom completely blind folded 2-fold towel. The tank is heated on an electric or gas stove. If the work of small dimensions, and folded by 2-4 times, duration of scalding can not exceed 30 minutes, if the job is big (a handkerchief, scarf) and folded many times, zaparivat should be 60-90 minutes, sings steaming prevents further detailed work ironed with hot irons face and underside. The next stage batik-product washed first with cold water, then hot and washed by hand with soap and water. The fabric of natural silk after Starkey treated at room temperature in a solution of vinegar (2 tablespoons of 9% vinegar per liter of water) for 10 minutes. Products from cotton, rayon or linen after hand washing should be 2 times 5 minutes in a boiling solution of washing powder designed for washing colored linen. Iron product must still wet, first with the wrong side, and then the face.
Hot batik method differs from the method of cold batik that as reserving substance use melted wax (paraffin wax, stearic acid or a mixture thereof). Hot wax with a brush of bristles or a special copper watering can cause fabric to those places that should remain white. (Wax stain should be transparent and dark, not white, and matte). Then the entire surface of the fabric is filled with highly dilute solutions of dye. After drying fabric wax close those areas which should remain light colored and the rest of the space is painted in darker tones. Cycle: booking - Dyeing - drying is repeated several times and ends with applying black paint. After drying, the wax is removed stroking of the face and underside covered with several layers of newspaper. Sheets of newspaper are changing as they impregnation with wax. The paint layer on such a work is protected by wax residue from the action of atmospheric moisture, so such work can not zaparivatsya and painting concentrated
solutions are not diluted solution of soda, just water. However, if this product is created for intense use (for example, as part of the clothing) it should be steamed as well as after the painting by cold batik, wash and boil 3-4 times for 10 minutes in solutions of detergent (containing no bleach). Free painting on fabrics implies the absence of any reserving agents that limit the spreading of the dye on the fabric. Because without them, it is difficult to get a clear picture, as a rule, the fabric before painting free ground, using a concentrated solution of sodium chloride solutions and emulsions of high molecular compounds (krahmala. PVA, CMC, solvetozy, gelatine, alginate. For dyes best suited CMC sold in hardware stores as a glue for wallpapers. CMC is easily diluted in warm water, bristly brush, liquid adhesive is applied to the fabric, the fabric is dried and worked on it a solution of dyes as well as work on watercolor paper. steaming produced by the method described above, but rinsing is usually elongated in the presence of tissue water-soluble glue.
Uzlisty batik - a dyeing-related sites. Tricot fabric or folded and tied with twine of synthetic thread) so that in the field dressings paint barely passed in the fabric. Such places should be mixed up with sites for free, which are easily accessible to the dye solutions. Dilute solution of sodium dyeing solution is applied to a product
with a brush: first, light mortars, and then darker. Damp product to dry a little in the hot wind or oven. After that, synthetic fibers are removed, to straighten the nodes, the product proglazhivaetsya the reverse side and the face of the hot iron over the paper or cloth, drying in the oven and ironing replace steaming. After them, the product can be rinsed in water and wash with soap. Thermal batik - the easiest way to obtain patterns on the fabric. Pre-cloth soaked in water, placed on the surface resistant to moisture and high temperatures (wooden or metal), put small folds and brush applied dilute solutions of dyes. Fabric covered rubber stamp, and on top put a hot iron, gently moving it from one place to another before the fabric is completely dry product. Then unfold the fabric and proglazhivayut the reverse side and face. No scalding product is washed with water and wash with soap and water.
More decorative effects can be obtained by using, for example, table salt (preferably coarse), placing the crystals on the wet painted parts of tissue This gives the picture like a drop.

Lighter areas may be obtained by using granules of urea (fertilizer urea) distributed as on wet colored fabrics. Graphic elements can be obtained by mixing the dye solution with the adhesive CMC and a fine brush to apply the solution to the thickened dyeing, dry cloth. Liquid glue may also be used as a reserve, preventing the spreading of the dye on the fabric.