Fair Trade Culture

September 7th, 2007 by Dominic

We’ve been waiting anxiously for months…and they’ve finally arrived! Batik peasant type tops (unisex) as well as traditional Thai batik pants.

These products are amazingly comfortable (100% cotton) hand dyed with all natural plant extracts.

Batik refers to a dying technique where melted wax is applied to cloth before being dipped in dye. It is common for people to use a mixture of bees wax and paraffin wax. The bee’s wax will hold to the fabric and the paraffin wax will allow cracking, which is a characteristic of batik. Wherever the wax has seeped through the fabric, the dye will not penetrate. Sometimes several colors are used, with a series of dyeing, drying and waxing steps.
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