I also need to know what the term resist means.
Batik was first used in Asia, India and Africa.
The batik of Indonesia is the most widely known.
Batik was first used in Asia, India and Africa. It spread from there
Batik work dates back to ancient times, with evidence of batik-dyed fabric found in Egypt and India as far back as 2,000 years ago. The technique of wax-resist dyeing used in batik is thought to have originated in Indonesia around the first century AD.
Wax-resist dyeing techniques, called batik in insular Southeast Asia, were practiced in the first millennium B.C. in Egypt and the first millennium A.D. in China and Japan. The island of Java in Indonesia is most famous for its batik.
about 2000 years ago.
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It is named batik for its beautiful and colourful pattern.
Nobody is certain of an exact date that batik was made, but discoveries show that batik already existed in Egypt in the 4th century BCE, so it must have been created roughly during or before that time period.
The exact inventor of Batik is unknown, though many sources claim batik hailed from Indonesia.
Roland Batik was born in 1951.
Batik was originally made in Java, Indonesia. Batik is now made all over the world