Batik

Batik is one of Malaysia’s traditionally and colourful hand craftsmanship and highly recognized worldwide due to its colourfully hand drawn technique or using block print on white cloth using coloured wax. The Malaysian government endorsed Malaysian batik as a national dress and gained popularity of all Malaysians.Batik Origin Batik is a cloth that is traditionally made using a manual resist dyeing technique. The origin of batik making started the trades between the Melayu Kingdom in Jambi and Javanese coastal cities have thrived since the 13th century.

Originated from the northern coastal batik producing areas of Java (Cirebon, Lasem, Tuban, and Madura) has influenced Jambi batik. This Jambi (Sumatran) batik, as well as Javanese batik, has influenced the batik craft in the Malay Peninsula. Culture influence According to the Museum of Cultural History of Oslo, the Javanese have direct influenced in the Malay batik-making. Batik Entrance into Markets started:

At an early stage the Malaysians used wooden blocks in order to produce batik-like textiles.

As late as the 1920s Javanese batik makers introduced the use of wax and copper blocks on Malaysia's east coast.

The production of hand drawn batik in Malaysia is of recent date and is related to the Javanese batik tulis. (tulis is translated as write- laterally to hand-drawn for batik in Malaysia) Commercial production started in the 1960s

Currently all Batik production houses using both hand-drawn and block print. Design Concepts Using Hand-Drawn or Block Print Batik in Malaysia has been developed in its own aesthetic design, depicting the Malaysian traditional culture and heritage. Batik designs are uniquely hand-drawn with floral motifs resembling flowers and fauna found in Malaysia.

Find out more batik products here: http://www.wanrosnah.com/batik.html

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Batik Fashion

Batik are vary popular especially in the East Coast of Malaysia, Trengganu, Pahang and Kelantan.
The batik you are looking at now are hand painted or hand drawn. From the wrap around skirt below, you can turn int 7 beautiful elegant batik fashion.

From the wrap around skirt, turn into a sun dress!

Wrap Skirt with Wrap Tops

Wrap Skirt

Wrap Skirt into A Wrap Dress, sexy bare backs.

This is a wrap around batik skirt. Very beautiful hand painted batik. Wrap around to your waist and wowla, you got a long skirt. Suitable as beach wear and beach wrap dress.

Types of Material:Silk and Cotton

Price starts from RM150.00 per piece.

Send your inquiry to wra@wra.com.my

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Post Date: 6 April 2013

Diana dresses raise over £850,000 at London sale

LONDON (AFP) - Ten dresses owned by Princess Diana, including the one worn when she danced with actor John Travolta at a White House dinner, sold for £862,800 at a London auction on Tuesday. The most iconic item -- the strapless dark blue velvet gown worn at a 1985 dinner thrown by US president Ronald Reagan in honour of the Prince and Princess of Wales -- raised £240,000.   It was immortalised in the photographs of Diana dancing with Travolta to the song You Should Be Dancing from his film Saturday Night Fever. The dress was bought "by a British gentleman who said he wanted to buy it as a surprise to cheer up his wife", explained auctioneer Kerry Taylor. The garments, created by some of Diana's favourite designers including Zandra Rhodes, Catherine Walker, Bruce Oldfield and Victor Edelstein, share an extraordinary history. Some were worn by the princess during official trips to Austria, Australia, Brazil, India, South Korea and the United States, said the auction house. They were then acquired by Florida businesswoman Maureen Rorech at a 1997 sale to raise money for humanitarian charities supported by the princess, two months before she was killed in a Paris car crash. Rorech put 14 of the dresses up for sale at a Canada auction in 2011 after declaring bankruptcy, but only four sold as the "reserve prices were ridiculously high", said a spokesman for Kerry Taylor. All of the remaining items sold on Tuesday at prices ranging from £24,000 to £240,000. Two were bought by an "important" British museum, revealed Taylor. "It's important for the generations to come," she added. "Diana was the people's princess, so the people should be able to see these dresses. This is our heritage, our history."