I am going to preface this post by saying that this is not the only way you can go about stretching your cloth to create your batik.  There are certainly any number of ways to accomplish this.  Feel free to get creative, use whatever you like.  I have read other entries online that describe just laying the cloth on some newspaper, I wouldn’t recommend this, it affects how the wax behaves as you add it to the cloth and will basically make your life more difficult and creating your batik less fun.

Stretch Frame

To build the frames that I am using I just found some old pieces of moulding made with MDF that I had laying around my garage.  It really doesn’t matter what type of wood you use as long as you can screw or nail it together and make it sturdy enough to support your batik while you are working on it. [click to continue…]

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