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Bali Batik Fabric

Bali Batik Fabric by Hoffman - TrendTex Fabrics

Bali Batik by Hoffman Fabrics

Bali Batik Fabric are all handmade and available in a huge range of colours and designs—making them perfect for making realistic art and pictorial quilts, or adding dimension and personality to a more conventionally pieced quilt. Just try substituting a tone-on-tone blender fabric, or even a solid, and you'll see what a difference a batik can make! 

Bali Batiks fabric contains a higher thread count than most similar fabrics, and are made from a premium 100%-cotton base, which is necessary for the many steps involved in batik production. And of critical importance to quilters: Bali Batiks don't fray, are preshrunk and colourfast, ensuring you can wash your finished makes with confidence.

Non-Fraying, Preshrunk, Colourfast Fabric
100 Percent Cotton with High Thread Count
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How are Bali Batik fabrics made?

The range of Bali Batik fabrics is vast: currently there are nearly a thousand different designs in production. Batik is a traditional surface design technique from Indonesia. The base colour is created by dying fabric, scrunching it up and leaving it to dry, sometimes with natural additives such as salt or soda to give additional texture. Hoffman Bali Batiks are most often left to dry out in the sun, since the dyes react with sunlight, resulting in vibrant colours—a process that also helps make them colourfast.

Additional designs are then added with melted wax using a copper block engraved with a design, which is stamped onto the fabric. The wax resists any additional dyes and colours added. The fabric is, finally, treated with heat to remove the wax and to make it ready for use. While traditionally the colours used would be earth tones, you can now get any colour you can imagine in the Hoffman Bali Batiks range—and every metre is unique.

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Step 1. A base dye is applied to the cotton, placed outside in the sun and scrunched up. Soda or salt is sprinkled over.
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Step 2. The scrunching and soda creates a classic salted look of a batik.
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Step 3. The following is an example of the product if additional dye was added during the process.
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Step 4. A cap (Pronounced ‘Chop’) is made out of copper using very few basic tools. It can take up to a month to create one and can be quite a piece of art.
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Step 5. Wax is stamped onto the fabric using the cap which creates a resist. Any dye that is applied after this process will not be able to penetrate the waxed areas.
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Step 6. Once the desired look has been achieved the wax is boiled off to reveal the final product.

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Hoffman Fabric's Bali Batiks are truly "magic fabrics", designed and made specifically for quilters and home sewists around the world.

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