Fanning new life into T’ganu batik craft


Beautiful batik: Maryam showing off some of the items for sale at a pop-up booth in Publika.

KUALA LUMPUR: It was while she was miles away from the country that Maryam Samirah Shamsuddin developed a love for one of Malaysia’s traditional crafts – batik.

Maryam, who is now in her mid-30s, said that she started collecting and learning about batik when she was studying in Britain.

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