African Batiks
Before creating our batiks we looked at the Adire Cloth in
Nigeria from an article called “The Mood Indigo.” We learned that
the dye used from batiks is made from plants. I got my inspiration off a worksheet
of Adire cloth patterns. There were a lot of examples of interesting and cool
patterns. My favorite part of making the batiks was applying the wax because
you could talk with your friends and you brushed it on the fabric. The other
part of the process was the dying and you needed to wait and dip it into different
dyes. I learned that you need to put the wax inside the cloth and the wax
needed to be really hot.
- Alejandro Ra. -
“My favorite part was dipping the batik in the black dye.”
- Sonsoles -
“I learned that different cultures have different things and that it
is nice to try them and learn about them.” - Teresa P.
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SONSOLES
Today Adire Cloth is machine made but some people do it in the traditional
way which is a better and has more merit even though it takes more effort.
Student Work:
Carlos Po.
Alejandro Ra.
Alejandro Ro.
“The cloth of African people is very hard to do; it’s
takes lots of time.”
- Carlos Pl. -
Emilio
Enrique
Ernesto
“Making batiks is neat because you can decorate your
room with it or give it to someone.”
- Eythor -
“My design actually started as two different batiks,
so I decided instead to put the two ideas together.” - Hayley
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Manuel
Mayte
“My inspiration was a duck!” -
Olga -
Sonsoles
Teresa
"Before we created our batiks, we looked at the Adire
cloth from Nigeria. I learned from the art of batiking that the cloth was
painted with dye and had strange patterns. The inspiration that I got to do
the design came from an ancient civilization in South America called the Incas.
It was an important thing to learn how to create a batik". -
Vicente -
William
Alberto