The cold batik fabric dyeing technique is a very creative and interesting process. You can create a picture of any complexity on fabric. It all depends on the skills and imagination of the artist. Now you will find out what you need for the job and become familiar with the process.

Materials for cold batik

Paints for cold batik

Reserve for cold batik

Brushes and sponges for batik

• Container with water for washing brushes
• Paper napkins for dry brushes
• Palette for mixing colors.

Cold batik making process

1. Select a pattern

2. Transferring the design to the fabric

3. Secure the fabric to the frame

4. Apply reserve to fabric

5. Painting batik with paints

6. Fixing the dye on batik

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Shibori or tie-dye

Free painting

Airbrush

DIY fashionable clothes

Batik is various techniques hand-painted fabric. It is believed that this art form first appeared in Indonesia, but it was also common and widely used in other Asian countries.

Batik reached Europe only at the end of the 19th century, but it was introduced into culture and creativity rather slowly. Nowadays, everyone has appeared for batik necessary tools and materials, so anyone can master the technique of hand painting. Despite the endless selection of ready-made painted fabrics, choosing the right color, size, type and pattern can be extremely difficult and even impossible. In this case, it is better to draw the picture yourself.

Create masterpieces without leaving home

That is why we recommend paying attention to batik as a process of meditation, learning new things and creating a completely unique picture on fabric that can be given as a gift. to a loved one, you can decorate, you can create designer clothes!

There are five main batik techniques:

• Shibori, tie-dye or knot painting;
• Free painting;
• Airbrush;

Cold batik is considered one of the simplest hand-painting techniques. The design is transferred onto silk or cotton fabric with a pencil. There is no need to redraw the entire drawing - only the outlines will be needed. After this, the fabric is stretched onto a stretcher and secured with pushpins. The contours of the pattern are drawn with a reserve agent based on gasoline and paraffin. To do this, use a glass rod into which the required amount of reserve is collected.

After this, they begin painting with special paints for fabric. The reserve protects the paints from mixing. The main feature of the cold batik technique is clear contour lines. They must be drawn without gaps or breaks, otherwise the paint will spread beyond the boundaries of the drawing. After finishing drawing, the fabric needs to be dried, after which it can be washed, ironed and worn daily.

Hot batik- it's more complex technology, but it gives more opportunities for creativity. Using a chanting tool, hot melted wax is applied to the fabric in areas where dyeing is not desired. Before starting work, as in cold batik, the contours of the design are applied to the fabric with a pencil, and then stretched onto a stretcher. The hardened wax blocks the paint from spreading.

After the paint has dried, the wax can be reapplied to the painted areas so that the second layer does not get on them. It is recommended to do no more than four layers of wax, otherwise the silk may deteriorate. When the design has dried, the wax is removed using an iron and old newspapers - by ironing, it transfers from the fabric to the paper and as a result of several approaches, you get hand-painted thin and soft silk that can be worn, hung in a frame or used to decorate furniture.

Shibori or tie-dye

Shibori, tie-dye or knot painting is a method of mechanically painting fabrics by tying areas that should not be dyed. Using this technique, you can get the correct geometric pattern, create large and small ornaments, and make simple, but abstract and unique drawings. This technique originated in India and is still actively used in the textile industry.

The knots on the fabric are tightly tied with ordinary thread, sometimes twigs, seeds, buttons or other details are added to them, which will leave a special imprint. For convenience, the fabric is tied around a pipe of any diameter. When the fabric is completely tied, it is coated with special fabric paints, after wetting it with water. After the dye has been absorbed and saturated, the threads are removed and the fabric is allowed to dry. The process can be accelerated using a hairdryer - then the paints will definitely not mix with each other during natural drying. Shibori is great for decorating clothes, bed linen, scarves, curtains and bags.

Batik - free painting

Free painting of fabric provides endless possibilities for imagination and creativity. The silk is stretched onto a stretcher and secured with buttons, moistened with water. Without contours or boundaries, a drawing is applied to it using any paints: watercolor, gouache, acrylic, oil. The peculiarity of this technique is that the paints always spread and mix with each other. The more water on the canvas, the more blurry the pattern is. This is very convenient if you paint in the style of expressionism, abstractionism, or avant-garde.

It is not advisable to wash such fabric or expose it to water after drying. To achieve clear lines and for the fabric to still be wearable, you must use acrylic paints for batik, which are ironed. Before free painting, the fabric is moistened with a salt solution so that the design “sets” better, after which the salt is removed by washing in cold water. Remember to dry each layer. This will prevent unwanted vagueness.

Batik - airbrush

Airbrushing is a modern batik technique that is performed using a machine. Brushes are no longer needed - the airbrush itself sprays paint of any color and shade, with any saturation, without touching the surface. The closer the hand is to the canvas, the thicker the color, and if you move it 30-50 cm, splashes appear in the picture. An airbrush makes painting much easier and gives you more options. This technique often requires stencils to create clear outlines and borders. Be careful with your airbrush and only choose paints that are compatible with it.

DIY fashionable batik clothes

Batik techniques can be combined and mixed. The fabric can be decorated with sparkles, pebbles, leaves, beads, using stencils, sprays and sprays. Batik is very interesting for children and for a few hours mothers can relax and do their own thing while the children draw.

The biggest advantage of batik these days is that you can create your own wardrobe. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have time for this - a ready-made assortment of women’s, men’s and children’s clothing, bags, and accessories can be found on. We have batik clothing with sacred symbols, ethnic patterns, mandalas and tribal designs.

Masters personally decorate fabrics so that you can be fashionable and beautiful, both on the street and at your favorite music festival outside the city. Many items are presented in one copy!

Batik is a type of creativity when a design is applied to fabric. The history of the batik technique goes back many centuries. Items that are made using batik were very popular at one time. As a rule, there was no limit to perfection in this case either.

In many countries, such as Africa, India, Indonesia, Japan, it was mainly women who were engaged in such creativity. Most likely because such an activity requires perseverance and painstaking work.

Types of batik

There are several types of painting, and much depends on the material used, technique and the desired result. The property of any type is that one method must be applied to silk, and the other is suitable for synthetics.

Now it remains to find out in more detail what can be done using the batik technique:

Hot look. Wax is used as the main material. To apply it, you need a special tool - chanting. Wax prevents the dye from spreading because it does not absorb it.

To use wax for these purposes, it is melted. That is why this type of batik is called hot. The paint is applied in several layers, and the wax is removed after everything is done. Basically, cotton fabric is suitable for this.

Cold batik. This method is suitable for decorating silk. A paint made from aniline is used. The reserve can be thick if it contains liquid rubber components; gasoline is used for dilution.

Basically, rubber is squeezed out of tubes, while gasoline ones are used using glass tubes. Colored and transparent reserves are used. The cold look involves application in one layer, which is why special care is needed, unlike the hot method.

Free painting. Typically used on natural silk and artificial fabric. Oil paints and aniline dyes are mainly used for such decoration.

Folding batik "shibori". The principle of this technology is to bandage the mother in a special way, after which paint is applied.

Nodular appearance. This is the case when many knots are made on the decorated fabric, tying them with thread. When the paint is applied, the knots are removed.

Preparing for work

Doing batik always evokes the most pleasant emotions, especially when positive results from the work appear. In the future, your own style and uniqueness will appear. At the very beginning it is better to use a cold technique, because the hot type will be much more difficult.

Before you start work, you need to prepare well for it. Literally everything depends on the quality of the paints. It is necessary to wash clothes with batik in cold water with the addition of vinegar. Below is a list of what you need for creativity.

Hoop and frame

If you need to make a design on a small size fabric, then you will need an embroidery hoop. But on a large scale, you need a frame or stretcher on which to attach the fabric.

The material is fixed to the frame with special hooks, which are included in the kit. Everything is made easier on a stretcher, and you can secure the material with a needle and thread, just so that the frame does not touch the fabric.

In fact, everything is done much simpler, and you can secure the material with simple buttons. But silk will be an exception in this case.

Paper and fabric

To make the project, you need a regular sheet of paper, the same scale as the batik design. In order to apply a design, you need natural fabric: silk, cambric, double-thread.

Note!

You should not use thick and dense material for these purposes, since the coloring composition may not saturate the fibers, which will cause an “explosion” of the paint, and the colors may mix.

Materials and tools

A reserve substance, a glass tube for it and paints are all included in the batik kit. Also, there is contour water with a dispenser, ready for use. In this case, a glass tube is not needed.

If you wish, you can complicate the process and prepare a reserve at home, and not use straws, but find attachments that you can then put on the bottle. It is not recommended to cook a mixture containing gasoline and rubber glue, since in addition to the unpleasant odor, this activity can cause a fire.

It’s better to just buy a ready-made set of everything you need to paint fabric. The paints in it are in a liquid state, sometimes in the form of a powder that needs to be dissolved. It is better to use synthetic brushes.

To work with batik, you need to wear old, but comfortable clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty. Because the paint, as a rule, does not come out.

Note!

From words to creativity

Now let’s look in detail at how to learn to draw using the batik technique:

First you need to stretch the fabric tightly so that it does not sag. It is best to use a wet cloth, because after it dries, the workpiece will become elastic.

Prepare a sketch, first draw it on paper with a pencil, drawing every detail well.

Secure the paper under the fabric so that the design can be transferred from the paper to the fabric. It is better to use a soft pencil for this.

Outline the lines with a reserve. The reserve is drawn up so that the spout of the tube drops into a container with contour fluid, and at the other end there should be a rubber syringe, with the help of which the liquid is drawn into the tube.

It is necessary to check the circuit after the reserve has completely dried. On batik, you need to use a wet brush to follow the design along one side of the outline, and a little later check whether the water has penetrated beyond the reserve line. If there are places where the outline is difficult to see, then after drying it is necessary to draw it again for good visibility.

Note!

At the end of the process, the reserve must be blown back into the container and the tube must be rinsed in gasoline. If this is not done, the particles of the reserve substance will harden and the tool will become unsuitable for use. Ready product can be framed.

It happens that craftsmen do not use a reserve, but simply apply salt to the paint that has not yet dried, it is saturated with it and interesting stains are obtained. This gives an excellent effect, and then unique compositions.

Below are photos of the batik painting technique.

Professional hobby

Sooner or later, when drawing on fabric, you can feel that the batik technique has become much better, and you can already create masterpieces with your own hands.

Today, many people are interested in the opportunity to paint fabric. After all, this gives a budding artist a chance to use his potential. During such creativity, style and new ideas will appear. Over time, batik will become much more interesting than just drawing on paper.

If you take this matter seriously, you can get good experience and become an expert in this field. Many who have their main income from this creativity, at the very beginning of their journey, did not think that they would be successful in this field. In the future, you can give master classes in batik technique yourself.

Painting on silk pays very well, and if you start doing it, you can later earn a good fee from this hobby.

Photos of batik technique

The word "batik" means "wax painting". Technology as we know it has its roots in Indonesian culture. It was on the island of Java that she experienced her heyday. It could take months to create one painting. Painting was a labor-intensive and expensive task, so things painted using the batik technique were the subject of the aristocracy. In Indonesia, painted fabrics are still highly valued, but now the Java craft has become a universal property and items made using the batik technique are popular all over the world.

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@alevtina_exclusive

What is batik

Batik can be called both a craft and an art at the same time. This is a special technique of drawing on fabric using reserve compounds. Plain fabric is stretched onto a wooden frame and painted according to a previously prepared design. It's quite thin and painstaking work, although you don't have to be an artist to master this skill.

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@hotbatik

Varieties of batik

Hot

The hot batik technique is usually used for coarse fabrics. The reserve composition in this case consists of wax or paraffin and is applied to the fabric while hot; after the design is ready, the reserve composition is removed. Hot batik involves multi-layer painting of the fabric, so the images are more blurry and do not have clearly drawn boundaries.

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@pavel_gubanov84

Cold

Cold batik is the most common way of painting silk. Unlike hot, the reserve composition is not heated before application. Before painting begins, the boundaries of the drawing are outlined with a reserve compound, which can be purchased at an art store. This technique is considered most suitable for beginners and is somewhat reminiscent of children's coloring books. For painting fabric in cold technology much less materials and additional accessories are required.

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Batik in the interior

Painted fabric is often used in home interiors. Unusual and interesting patterns, funny drawings or full-fledged paintings will add freshness to any apartment. The batik technique is also often used to paint bedspreads or bed linen.

@razinabatik
@dream_bq

Batik in the wardrobe

This technique can be used not only for decorating your apartment. In addition to panels or bedspreads, you can paint stoles and other wardrobe items. Silk blouses with unusual patterns or even children's T-shirts with simple designs are very popular.

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@olga_laurus

Learning the cold batik technique

Since this technique is best suited for starting to master painting, we will focus on cold batik.

What you will need

Almost all batik materials can be easily purchased at an art store.

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• Textile. Traditionally, natural fabrics are used for cold batik because special dyes do not adhere well to artificial materials. Silk is best.
• Frame. The ideal option would be a sliding one, since such a frame is more convenient to adjust to the size of the canvas.
• Brushes. It is better to select brushes for batik in an art store. There they can tell you which tool is best suited.

• Paints. Batik paints can also be found at an art store. To begin with, you can get by with the simplest sets
• Reserve. You can either prepare the reserve yourself or buy it ready-made.
• Tubes for applying reserve. The tubes can be purchased at a specialty store. But often the reserve is sold in a container with an elongated spout; many craftsmen immediately apply it to the fabric
• Paper drawing. Before you start, decide what image you will apply to the fabric, make a paper sketch to the size of your canvas
• Push pins to secure the fabric to the frame

What you need to know

Before you begin to study the technique in practice, you first need to learn a few important nuances paintings on fabric.

• The fabric should be tightly secured to the frame. If the canvas moves or ripples, the outline will be poor and the paint may bleed.
• Before you start filling the outline, you should try the material on a piece of fabric.
• Before you start painting, you need to check the contour for integrity and make sure it is closed. To do this, gently blot the area with a sponge moistened with water and a drop of shampoo. If water does not flow out, then the contour is applied well.
• Contour lines should not be too thick

How to make batik

Fabric preparation

Before work, you need to thoroughly rinse the fabric in warm water and get rid of chemicals.

Prepare the frame

While the fabric is drying, prepare the frame. Cover the frame with masking tape before stretching the canvas.

Beginning of work

After the fabric is completely dry, stretch the fabric over the frame and secure it with pushpins. To pull the fabric tightly, first secure it with four snaps, one on each side. Next, you can fasten the fabric along the entire frame.

Draw a sketch on the fabric

Place a pre-prepared design under the fabric and transfer it with a simple soft pencil onto the fabric like a stencil.

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Apply reserve

Carefully apply the reserve along the outline of your sketch. To do this, put the reserve into a special glass tube and smoothly move it along the contour of the pattern. It is important to ensure that the line is not interrupted. It’s up to you to draw with a special device or buy a reserve with an applicator.

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Apply paint

After the reserve has dried, you can begin applying paint. To make the paint easier to apply, you can moisten the area with water.

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Shutdown

Now that the paint has dried, you need to remove the product from the frame and carefully iron it on the back side with an iron at a temperature suitable for the fabric. After this, we leave the product for about a day and hand wash it in a soapy solution. All that remains is to process the edges of the canvas and the work is finished.

For a better understanding of the technique, we have selected several master classes for you.

Master Class. Cold batik:

Cold batik. Canvas painting:

Having mastered cold batik, you can not limit yourself to just drawing on canvases. You can paint your own dresses or blouses.

Master class for beginners on the batik technique from Elleplatz.

E If someone thinks that the most difficult thing in making batik is applying paint to the fabric, then he is mistaken - this is the easiest and most interesting of the entire process of making the work. And the whole process consists of several successive stages. And not all of them are very interesting. Judge for yourself.

Stage one. We stretch the fabric.

Framework. They come in a variety of sizes, from small to large, and even a simple embroidery hoop will work. There is only one principle: the fabric should be attached to the frame in such a way that the entire space for drawing is suspended. That is, the frame should have a profile, or, more simply, a border around the edges, as in the photo. And this side with the border will be the front side of the work.

I have several frames, the largest of them is 135x135 cm, I use it for painting clothes, others, which are smaller, I use for making scarves and pictures (50x100), for a scarf I stretch it in two steps and it turns out in finished form longer than a meter, and There are small ones for pictures.

Reusable frames!

We draw on them, but we do not realize the finished work on them, otherwise it will be very expensive. But more on that later, right now we’re just stretching the fabric.
If you are a beginner batik performer, then one frame is enough for you, or you can try it on a large hoop.
I use regular stationery buttons. They pierce the fabric and leave marks. Therefore, in those places where the fabric will not be cut later, you need to use clips. You will only need this if you are making a painting that exceeds the size of your frame. For example, when I paint a long circle skirt, it doesn’t even fit on my large frame 135 x 135 cm, and I paint it in parts in four steps, or in two steps, depending on the length of the product. I use simple paper clips. Special ones are also sold in stores for artists; they are probably very good and convenient, but I haven’t tried them.
With these simple buttons, I pin the fabric around the perimeter of the frame from the end, pushing the buttons in, or from the back, as you wish, but the fabric should be pulled tightly enough with your hands so that it does not sag on the frame.

Now the fabric.

All recommendations are written in defense of natural silk. This is right. Natural silk is a beautiful expensive fabric, etc. I use it only for clothes and only to order!
I use any thin fabric! I like any synthetics, cotton, linen, satin, whatever you want, and whatever is inexpensive. Now the quality of synthetic fabrics is such that polyester, due to its properties, can be stored longer than natural silk. For clothing, of course, it does not have all the properties natural fibers, but it’s just right for pictures, and it’s perfect for scarves, and it’s also good for a skirt.
All fabrics perceive reserve and paint differently. On some it spreads instantly, on others you will be tortured by smearing, but any one can be decorated in the end. For beginners, I recommend a fabric called crepe. This best option, on which the reserve fits well and the paint spreads well to the contours.

Stage two. Drawing.

So we got to the reserve. The fabric is stretched over a frame, and a design must be applied to it.
Remove the backing paper and set it aside, you may need it later.
Since all normal people are normal people, I do not recommend following my example and applying a drawing in reserve to fabric right away without first drawing with a pencil on paper.
Therefore, we take a sheet of paper of the size that we should get the finished drawing. And draw a picture with a pencil on this sheet. Then we put this design under the fabric so that it shines through it, secure it in several places with pins so that it does not move, and trace it along the contour. The pattern will shine through through crepe, chiffon, and other fabrics. And through thin cotton it will be. And dense fabrics are somewhat more difficult; for beginners it is better to try on thin ones. For specialists: place a directional light lamp under a frame with thick fabric and combine the drawing.
Now we have fabric with a pattern on the frame. And we will outline this drawing with a reserve.
Reserve- this is a composition that does not allow paint to spread over the fabric. We will make cold batik because it is easier and more accessible to everyone.
A small digression for information: There are several types of batik - hot, cold, knotted, free painting. What is the difference between cold batik and hot batik?

In technology Cold batik the role of the reserve is played by a special fixative called reserve (reservation composition, based on paraffin, gasoline. It can be prepared at home, but there are also ready-made reserves. There are both colored and colorless reserves. Cold reserve is applied either with special tools - glass tubes with reservoir, or reserves are used in tubes that are equipped with an elongated spout.
Wax is used as a reserve in hot batik. The wax is applied using a special tool called a chanting. Areas covered with wax do not absorb paint and also limit its spread. Hot batik is called hot because the wax is used in a “hot” molten form. This method is mainly used for dyeing cotton fabric. Upon completion of the work, the wax is removed from the surface of the fabric. The painting effect is achieved through layer-by-layer application of paint.
Nodular- this is when the fabric is dyed with aniline dyes, and before dyeing it is folded in a certain way, tied in knots.
Free painting- this is what anyone wants, whatever they want, and dyes and reserves and oil paint are all in a heap, the artists get wonderful, original, unique results.

Let's continue. There are both colored and colorless reserves. They are easier to buy than to prepare. It was once Soviet times, and there was a terrible shortage of everything, and we mixed gasoline with paraffin. And now everything is simple - I went and bought a jar of colorless reserve for 40 - 50 rubles. If you want colored, please do too, although I make color reserves by adding a small amount of oil paint to the colorless one. You can get any color, if it turns out thick, then dilute it with gasoline purified(for lighters). But this is my whim, because there is a large selection of all colors on sale. They are sold in jars and tubes.

From jars they are applied to the fabric using a pen - glass tubes with a reservoir; from tubes they are simply squeezed directly onto the fabric. The reserve is applied in a continuous line. The principle is this: Better several times in one place than never! If this is your first time, then take a tinted or colored reserve; it is easier to see than a colorless one.
For pictures you can use any reserves. And for clothes, the ones in jars are better, because beautiful voluminous reserves from tubes can peel off when washing the product. In addition, those applied with a drawing pen are liquid, penetrate the fabric well, and the likelihood of further paint leakage is minimal. And from a tube, the reserve is usually voluminous and beautiful, it is easier to apply, but it is more difficult to control the through penetration of the fabric. There are, of course, ways: for example, you can check with a soap solution, but for beginners I recommend applying a contour with a liquid reserve, and, if you want, with a volumetric one from a tube, trace the contours at the end of the work, on top of the applied paint.

The contours of the drawing must be closed!

The paint will spread from reserve to reserve, and it will fill the entire surface enclosed for it. If the contour is not closed, then the paint will flow further wherever it wants, and it will be very difficult to catch it.
We applied the outline and set it to dry. It usually takes an hour for the liquid reserve to dry completely, and three to five hours for the thick one from the tubes. But there is no need to rush, leave the work until tomorrow and rest assured, it will definitely dry overnight.
And then take batik paints, a palette in the form of a plate or molds from boxes of candy, and decorate your batik to your liking, as you like.

If you are in doubt about how to decorate it, then take out the paper with the design that you have set aside, take watercolors or other paints for the paper and decorate the paper first. Look. If you like it, we also decorate the fabric. The technique of decorating is simple: you drop paint with a brush and it flows down to the contours. This is on crepe, on others it flows worse, but it will still spread in the end. The main thing is not to let the brush go beyond the outline into places where paint should not be.
About paints. They are also different. There are some that need to be steamed, they are best used for hot batik, but you can also use them for cold batik in pictures, which no one will ever wash or wet. And there are those labeled acrylic, they are steamed with an iron. These are very convenient to use for painting clothes. They are a little more expensive, but there is a variety!!! Even if you have never been able to and do not know how and are not going to learn how to mix paints, you can get any color ready-made for your money. There are 10 jars in my palette and this is quite a lot even with my endless experiments.
That's it, the most enjoyable part of the job is over. The drawing is completed and dries on a frame with buttons...

The drawing is completed and dries on a frame with buttons. Dries quickly. If you did not want to apply a contour from the volumetric reserve in tubes, or some other volumetric contour, on top of your picture, then in a couple of hours your batik will dry. If you applied some kind of lining, then, accordingly, it will take longer to dry.
When the drawing has dried, remove it from the frame and iron it very well to fix the paint. The temperature is selected according to the maximum temperature for a given type of fabric. I then iron it through wet gauze to make sure it steams well. If you used a volumetric contour, then the product is ironed only from the inside out; these contours do not like temperature at all, they melt and can stick to the board, so good luck with ironing.

Now you have secured it, and now it all depends on how you were going to use this product further. Is this a head scarf? skirt hem? window curtain? A painting for the wall? It is clear that further processing and design of the product depends on this. Here I will describe the most difficult option - the option of painting on the wall. Why is it the most difficult for me? Yes, because it begins like this: We persuaded my husband for two days to make a frame! You can persuade him for three days. For the skirt or curtain there are no problems, I sat down and sewed it, but for the frame... They persuaded me.

So he takes a beam of suitable cross-section and length and makes a frame for batik from it. A suitable cross-section is one that is as small as possible, but the finished frame would not vibrate, but would be held rigidly. To do it this way: We cut the timber into four parts: on the sides of the frame, and we cut the ends at an angle of 45 degrees, these joints will now be glued together. For gluing, prepare a table of such a size that the frame lies completely on it. Apply glue to the ends and press.

For gluing, prepare a table of such a size that the frame lies completely on it. Apply glue to the ends and press.

Be sure to align the corners so that all corners of the frame are straight. The photo shows a simple and accessible tool for leveling corners - a disc box.

When the corners have dried a little, cut out the corners from thick cardboard and glue them onto the corners, securing them in this way.

And now we dry the frame. The frame takes five to ten hours to dry on this table, quite a lot, so that everything sticks well and secures itself. And the next day, I usually do it this way, we stretch the fabric with the finished pattern onto the finished frame. This is done simply: spread glue on one side and pin the fabric with buttons, then the opposite side, and then the rest. If the product is large, then we begin pinning the first side from the corner, and the subsequent ones from the center to the edges. Now let's dry it again. And again we dry it for at least five hours, and preferably 24 hours. Now the buttons can be removed.

We have a batik painting on a frame, ready to be framed with a baguette.