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Three Javanese Women Drawing Batik Designs on Cloth
Kassian Céphas, c. 1867 - c. 1910
This photograph has been carefully staged. Three women draw motifs on cotton fabric using molten wax. The wax is heated in a metal pan on a brazier. When the fabric is dyed, the wax motifs remain colour-free. Then the wax is melted away and the pattern emerges.
- Artwork typephotograph
- Object numberRP-F-2001-17-71
- Dimensionsheight 157 mm x width 218 mm
- Physical characteristicsalbuminedruk