Batik and Wax-Resist Fabric Dyeing

This pen melts candles, crayons, batik wax, and paraffin to produce a controlled, thick or thin line. The melted wax will not drip when the tool is held at an angle. It heats quickly and maintains an even melting temperature.

This is a stamp set of 12 geometric and natural shapes for working with batik wax, paraffin, and melted crayons. Although designed for use with the Wax Melter Kit, Cjopstiks can be used with other wax methods. Instructions are included with each set.

This tool is ideal for fabric painting, drawings, signing artwork, making perfectly consistent dots, line-art, and French matting. You can use this pen with acrylic paints, watercolors, oils, or ink.

Dip this pen in melted wax, tempera, or fabric paint and draw fine, even lines on paper or cloth. The Little Dipper can also be used for pysanky (Ukranian Easter Egg dyeing). Just heat it over a candle flame and scoop beeswax into it.

Achieve the unique batik look simply and easily on paper without using heat or melting wax. It's a simple two-step cold method process ideal for classroom, home, or studio. Bateek-O consists of a wax transfer sheet and an art picture sheet.

These tools are for applying wax in fine lines. Hot wax is poured into the needle. It then flows through the needle spout. You can tip the tool forward to start the wax flow, and tip it back to stop it. Tjanting Tools come in 3 different sizes.

This Candle Thermometer is important for determining the correct temperature for pouring candles. It's measured in Farenheit and marked with correct pouring temperatures for a variety of candle techniques.

This space-saving unit melts wax and performs many other tasks with an adjustable-temperature 1000-watt self-cleaning burner. The heating element lifts for easy cleaning.

A simple way to melt wax for batik, crayon painting, candle decorating, ceramic resist, jewelry, sculpture, and lapidary work. Kit includes a palette, removable cups, and a squeeze pen, all aluminum. Use squeeze pen to make controlled thin to thick lines.

Dylon Cold Water Dyes include 26 vivid, permanent colors for use on most natural fabrics such as cotton, linen, canvas, jute, and viscose rayon. One small tin makes a solution sufficient for dyeing 6–8 oz of dry weight material.

This product is a specially formulated 50/50 blend of paraffin and microcrystalline waxes. Professional quality produces the distinctive crackle effect for traditional batik.

Jacquard's silkscreenable, colorless resist holds a crisp line without spreading, and will not shrink or pucker when dry. It washes out easily with warm water, even after steaming. It's odorless, alcohol-free, and non-toxic.

Procion dyes are permanent, colorfast, and very washable. You can easily create a palette of brilliant colors ranging from light pastels to deep, vibrant hues. Perfect for natural plant fibers — cotton, linen, paper, reeds, and wood.

This muslin is 38" (97 cm) wide. Sold by the yard.

In this video, art instructor Helen Carkin demonstrates the batik process from the initial design to applying the wax and dying the cloth to removal of the wax and mounting the finished piece for framing. 60 minutes.

A batik design is built up by color, using sequences of wax, dye, rinse, dry on cloth. This practical guide will teach you a range of techniques to create abstract designs as well as painterly images. By Rosi Robinson. Paperback. 96 pages. 8½" × 11".

This book demonstrates the beautiful effects that anyone can achieve with the unique art known as batik. It includes ideas for creating a wallhanging or a selection of fashion garments. Authors — Heather Griffin and Margaret Hone. Paperback. 48 pages.