Batik tools are pretty simple, and are used to transport the hot wax to the cloth.
I should mention here that when you are using hot wax you must wear closed shoes, and gloves are also a necessity if you wish to avoid burns to your hands. I also wear glasses, as a splash to your eye could do a bit of damage.
So the first tools are
- boots,
- gloves,
- and glasses.
The equipment needed to start batiking is
- A saucepan dedicated to wax that you can heat your wax and also leave your wax in cold. this saves lots of transfer and cleaning up.
- Some bees wax
- Some very old paint brushes that are not expensive ones. They get wrecked.
- Some canting tools of various sizes
- A wire clothes rack to peg your fabric tight across while you work on it.
- A large open saucepan of vegetation dye to place your batik into to dye.
- A saucepan to heat to water to boil the wax out of your fabric.
Over the next few posts we will be getting into the nitty gritty of the process, the types of wax, the types of fabrics, the dye baths, the different types of wax, and getting the wax out.
But I think its best not to overload ourselves with too much, and its best to go slowly along this path.
If any of you would like to add anything to our tools list please feel free, after all this is a networking place for eco batik.
