BATIK AND OTHER
PATTERN DYEING
BY
WALTER DAVIS BAKER
AND
IDA STRAWN BAKER
OF
THE WALDCRAFT STUDIOS
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
1920
ATKINSON, MENTZER & COMPANY
CHICAGO
| I | |
| History and Character of Batiks | 11 |
| II | |
| The Principles of Dyeing Fabrics | 35 |
| III | |
| Wax Resist Processes | 54 |
| IV | |
| Batiks and Other Illuminated Textiles | 75 |
| V | |
| Dyeing for Plays and Pageants | 97 |
| VI | |
| Tie-Dyed Work | 109 |
| VII | |
| Stick Printing, Block Printing and Stencil Dyeing | 123 |
ONE of the hopeful observations during the fewyears of applied art education in our schools hasbeen the readiness with which educators have takenup and kept problems in which the mediums of expressionwere practical and efficient, suitable for thepurpose intended, and the equal readiness with whichthey have dropped other problems.
The burning of wood as a means of decoration didnot stand this test, therefore it had to go. Oil paintis not a suitable medium to decorate textiles, thereforeit too has nearly fallen from use.
The value of applied art to home and communityrests upon the test, whether the pupil who works outthe problems becomes by virtue thereof a more usefuland cultured individual in the home and in the socialand industrial life of the community.
A problem which satisfies this test becomes a basicproblem. To a pupil who has once bound a bookwith its cover design, end papers, etc., a book is adifferent thing ever after. He becomes a more intelligentand cultured member of the consumingpublic so far as books are concerned. To the demandsof many such members the book binders[Pg 5]resp