Java hotels collection

A small copper cup with a spout, the canting lays hot wax on cotton; the dye cannot reach whatever the wax covers, and the work begins again for each colour. Batik is drawn this way by hand in Solo and Yogyakarta, in the browns and indigos of the royal courts, and in Pekalongan, where the patterns borrowed flowers from China and bouquets from Europe. Further east, Bromo smokes in the middle of a sea of sand, and the Tenggerese grow cabbages and onions right up the steep slopes of the caldera.