SINGAPORE – Gifts, cake and celebrity guests made for a 100th birthday to remember for Mr Ang Kum Siong, known to many as the “Batik Uncle” of Holland Road Shopping Centre. Mr Ang is the founder of ...

For visual artist Arif Rafhan Othman, batik is more than colour and ornamentation. He treats it as a miniature world — one where every motif holds a story waiting to be read. At 48, Arif approaches ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 6 — For visual artist Arif Rafhan Othman, batik is not merely a play of colours on canvas or a decorative craft. Instead, it is a ‘small world’ that reveals a thousand stories ...

Some deem batik as a symbol of rekindled love, while others believe it grants protection against misfortune. Although its origin remains uncertain, what’s clear is that this textile art form has ...

LUMUT: A rare phenomenon of two-metre waves pounding the Teluk Batik shoreline has caused severe erosion over the past three days. A survey by Bernama at the location found that roughly 200 metres of ...

Batik art on wood is an African tradition that marries the beauty of intricate patterns with the natural elegance of wood. This technique involves applying wax to create designs before dyeing the wood ...

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Sequencing hundreds of Anopheles funestus mosquitoes provides new insights into the evolutionary patterns of this important human malaria-transmitting species. New research into the genetics of ...

For the most part, voting patterns across demographic groups in the 2024 presidential election were not substantially different from the 2020 and 2016 elections. But Donald Trump’s gains among several ...

Design for square pocket, shawl, textile. Paisley floral pattern Design for square pocket, shawl, textile. Lace floral pattern Traditional java pattern called " Batik ". This pattern has a flower ...