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I looked it up and it is fascinating. The time and patience needed is unbelievable. The artwork is so strikingly beautiful. Thank you for mentioning this and I suggest everyone check it out.

There is a Factory making Batik on the Island of Andros in the Bahamas.

http://www.androsia.com/Factory.html


My Sister used to do some way back in the sixties.

Beautiful Stuff.
You have to surf around on the Site to see the Designs and all.

http://www.androsia.com/DesignColoursCotV.html

Has it got anything to do with

Elmo's blue blanket

I did Batik several years ago. Can be a little messy but it's a lot of fun.

Nothing...... Would you like to share what it is?

Well, the OP has gone silent so:
Batic art is a dying process where you "paint" a design on fabric with melted wax the "release" and then hand dye the garment. The dye dosen't reach the waxed part which hopefully remain the base color. The wax is then removed and the process can be repeated with different waxing & coloring on the undyed surfaces of the garment. Like I said it's time consuming and can be very messy when you are working with dyes & melted wax.

http://www.pburch.net/dyeing/howtobatik.shtml

Is it when they paint on rice.

ps, I found working with stained glass much more rewarding.

Wow thats sounds very involved! Its amazing they haven't invented a machine to do the process?

Thanks for sharing that

Stained glass is truly beautiful. A work of art indeed. I understand why it might be more rewarding.

It is also made by machine, but quite inferior to the hand made process, which is a complicated and time consuming effort. The people who do it are highly skilled and patient.

Problem is that often the producers don't get paid fairly for their work, as the middle people grab most of the profit.

I think the OP is expressing concern that the much cheaper and inferior machine made batik will kill the demand for the handmade article. Also that young people will be reluctant to embark on a career in a "non-technological" work environment.

Yes makes sense to me those concerns. Hand made is often far more superior then machine made. Yet we live in a modern word and the demand for speedier processes and more inferior products tends to be favoured more. That way mass production and output means profit margins are higher. You would think it was the other way around but often more than not that is never the case.