Clay finds niche in batik printing

Work of art: (Left) A printing block need only be dipped briefly into the clay mixture and stamped onto the fabric before it is dried, making it less time consuming. — Bernama

KUALA TERENGGANU: Kraftangan Malaysia’s Terengganu branch, together with 16 entrepreneurs under its umbrella, has succeeded in producing batik products with the use of clay instead of candle wax.

Its director, Fazlin Mohamad Zaki, said the new batik products were known as marble clay, marble screen as well as marble clay and screen.