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Peranakan culture: Major influence on batik, fashion Traces of Peranakan culture from Chinese descendants are recognizable in the world-acclaimed heritage of Indonesian batik.
Malaysian designer realised the potential of the ancient textile technique of batik, and started using it for everything from shift dresses to wrap skirts. Her designs incorporate bold motifs ...
Despite this growing popularity aligning with the government’s aspiration to preserve and strengthen batik as part of the nation’s cultural heritage, in reality, local support for Malaysian batik ...
The Batik costumes designed by Cheng influenced the traditional Batik culture in Danzhai and also won applause at fashion shows at home and abroad.
Batik is traditionally linked to Java, but batik clothing today weaves together Indian, Chinese and Malay elements to create a distinctly South-east Asian cultural heritage, said local fashion ...
Around this time, a tourism boom in ethnic minority-majority regions was fueling the rise of minzu feng, or “nationality fashion,” in China. Distinguished from both Western and Han clothing styles ...
Zhang Juanjuan, a member of Miao ethnic group, shows great interest in China's traditional batik techniques as her mother and grandmother are experts of batik. She inherited these techniques to ...
Ran Guangjin, a former art teacher, now becomes a craftswoman who runs a workshop making Fengxiang batik in southwest China's Guizhou Province. Ran has designed a great variety of Fengxiang printing ...
Traces of Peranakan culture from Chinese descendants are recognizable in the world-acclaimed heritage of Indonesian batik.
Working with her friends, Zhang made more practical, environmental friendly and fashionable batik products such as clothing and handbags.