From circa 1840 onwards, many batiks found their way from what was called the Netherlands East Indies, then under Dutch colonial rule, to the Netherlands, where they were kept in private and public collections. The Royal Tropical Institute in the Netherlands now owns a collection of over 3000 pieces representative of the large variety of batiks from the major batik centres that emerged on Java, Madura and Sumatra.
Batik - Drawn in wax focuses on the batiks as visual witnesses of cultural encounter - within the East but also between the East and the West. The collection shown in this full colour illustrated book is a joy for everyone interested in Indonesian arts and textiles. It is also a rich source of study for scholars from all over the world who are interested in the art of batik and the society in which it developed to its high level of perfection. Itie C. van Hout is curator at the Tropenmuseum Amsterdam and producer of the exhibition Batik - Drawn in Wax. As anthropologist she is specialised in textiles, symbolic anthropology and religions. She has produced many national and international exhibitions. Other contributions in the book are from Susan Legêne, Berteke Waaldijk, Fiona Kerlogue, Geneviève Duggan and Maria Wronska Friend.
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