How to Use batik in a Sentence

batik

noun

• Culture abounds in the Bahamas, from handmade batik to the Junkanoo beat.
  — Kristi Eaton, Chron, 27 Aug. 2021
• While working in New York, a friend introduced her to batik.
  — Sarah Bonnette, NOLA.com, 2 May 2018
• Don’t miss the Coconut Style boutique’s batik-print robes and bed linens in brilliant, vibrant hues.
  — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2017
• Much of the cotton used for batik wasn’t grown in Indonesia, blunting the authenticity of the art form.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 30 June 2023
• A lot of men—foreigners especially—would have struggled to pull off the batik.
  — Monte Reel, Bloomberg.com, 20 July 2017
• Jean’s favorite piece in the collection is a strapless dress made of five ruffles, rendered in a purple, red, yellow, and blue batik.
  — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 21 Apr. 2022
• For breakfast, Café Rae with its bright batik decor and wide range of breakfast options is a solid choice with everything from omelettes and pancakes to huevos rancheros.
  — Trisha Boyer, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2019
• Bamboo Ben’s Instagram page, @bamboo_ben_, has photos of the space and shows batik-print bars and banquettes surrounded by bamboo and skulls.
  — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Apr. 2021
• For three months, at the entrance to the gallery, a statue of its founder Joshua Reynolds greeted visitors, draped for the occasion in a colorful sash of African batik fabric.
  — Evan John, CNN, 25 Jan. 2022
• Head into the village and try your hand at batik painting on scarves, sarongs, and shirts, which will double as a beautiful memento from your trip.
  — Christina Liao, Vogue, 23 May 2019
• It’s curiously rendered, with a too-small brush and taped edges, over a beautiful batik-like surface of wavy white lines on a stained field of matte black.
  — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• My hope is that people will acknowledge and give appreciation to the batik.
  — NBC News, 15 Sep. 2017
• Buyers had one week to pre-order items, such as traditional snacks, batik clothes, or coffee.
  — Edna Tarigan, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2020
• Meanwhile, in New York, Muur has launched a capsule collection of indigo batik.
  — Alexander Freeling, Robb Report, 11 Nov. 2021
• Erik Schaix, a designer, sells couture models in charcoal-grey denim and batik print at his Paris boutique.
  — The Economist, 30 May 2020
• In the 20th century, the Javanese also developed a wood-block printing technique for batik.
  — Stefanie Waldek, House Beautiful, 7 Oct. 2020
• Some of batik’s greatest promoters, as far back as the mid-19th century, were female entrepreneurs.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 30 June 2023
• Women in flowing batik dresses and thin men in shorts and sandals snacked from a platter of fruit and a platter of brownies; volunteers dispensed ice water from the bar.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2019
• Like batik—and even classic American tie dye—ikat is a resist-dyeing technique: Yarns are bundled and bound with string then dyed to create patterns.
  — Stefanie Waldek, House Beautiful, 2 Nov. 2020
• Kattenbracker's medium of choice is batik, which is a process of dying fabric using dyes and hot beeswax to get the color to stay, and make an eventual image.
  — Rebecca Hazen, Houston Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2018
• Look for gorgeous batik fabrics, antique lighting and a beautiful spa.
  — Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2021
• Indonesians have been making batik wax fabrics since the sixth century, according to The Jakarta Post.
  — Tomi Obaro, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2022
• Everyone is wearing their Sunday batik best, intricate wax-dyed cloth that is the national garb.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
• Fabrics also ranged from Nigerian handwoven fabrics like Aso-Oke, Hand and tye-dye batik.
  — Essence, 7 Nov. 2021
• Aesthetic finishes like graphics and batik are not so useful.
  — Karen L. Labat, The Conversation, 16 Apr. 2020
• There were batik prints and giant pompom embellishments.
  — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 19 July 2018
• Perhaps one of the resort’s most beautiful touches is the Quila dining room, with a vaulted clerestory studded with more than 2,500 glittering copper batik stamps.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
• Yet, one of the best parts is Studio 189 adding its cultural touch by designing a reversible lens cloth produced in Ghana using a traditional dyeing technique called hand batik.
  — Greg Emmanuel, Essence, 8 Dec. 2021
• Its most striking detail is the replica of the original ceiling in the reception area: a kaleidoscopic collection of batik panels designed by de Silva.
  — Sarah Souli, Travel + Leisure, 21 Oct. 2023
• Yet Kame Kngwarreye, who died in 1996, had created ceremonial paintings and batiks for years before then.
  — Jillian Steinhauer, The New Republic, 21 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024