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With Sabine Bolk
workshop₹ 2,000.00
A one-day workshop with Dutch artist and batik researcher Sabine Bolk, tracing the European hand in batik's history: colonial trade routes, motifs borrowed and reworked, and the practice of designer Bertha Bake. Participants work batik directly on textile, learning the wax-resist technique while considering how a craft rooted in Java came to absorb patterns like the Dutch tea cosy. The day moves between history and hands-on making, and each participant leaves with a piece of cloth they've batiked themselves.
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Sabine Bolk (b. 1984) is a Dutch artist and batik researcher whose work examines batik history, colonial influence on the craft, and the meaning behind its motifs. She writes, speaks, and leads workshops internationally to promote and preserve batik practice, and documents her research on her blog, The Journey to Batik. She has travelled frequently to Southeast Asia since 2009. In 2019, she launched her research project Retelling the History of the (Indo-)European Influence on Batik in Indonesia, and from 2019 to 2021 was a Research Associate at the Research Center for Material Culture in Leiden, studying Dutch museum and archive collections of batik. In 2023, she curated Masa Depan Batik | Future of Batik at Erasmus Huis, Jakarta, alongside six batik makers. She is currently working on a batik exhibition and research project at the Kunstmuseum, The Hague, drawing on its collection of batik worn in the former Dutch East Indies and batik made in the Netherlands during the Art Nouveau period.
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