Show A Javanese Invention Japan and China embroider embroider- their colors on their materials Sumatra dyes des the threads and weaves s them In India stamps and the South Sea Islands Islands islands Is Is- lands paint them on on but Java paints tl the e pattern on In wax war and dyes the colors In Batik the process used In Java Is a a science an art an Indus Industry try a religion a mystery an an Inheritance Inheritance tance and a treasure peculiar to this tr tropical Island Batik makers draw their designs In hot bot w wax i on white cotton cot ton cloth cloth- and then color the uncovered uncovered uncovered ered portions of at the pattern by bl dipping dip ping the waxed cloth again and again aloin Into vats of ot vegetable dye That tile Javanese have been able to make the plain cotton so co 0 rich and magnificent a fabric entitles entitled Java to a high place in the world of ot art As AI the draws the hot wax tows flows from tram the miniature spout of a very small copper cop per cup or which is fastened securely In one end of a short bamboo handle This instrument was Invented Invent ed by the tile Javanese |