I batiked and sewed a slip dress sundress and here’s is the sewing pattern and process:
Pattern: Slip dress by Ann-Normany Patterns. This simple dress floats away from the body with cutaway shoulders and a knee length fit.
Cookie cutters (metal, wood only! no plastic)
Batik wax and a way to heat it. I use a portable plug in skillet with water under the foil wax tray.
I cut out the pieces first since I wanted the design to follow the contours of the dress. This dress is Kona cotton, but any dyeable fabric like linen, cotton or rayon would work fine. For this dress, a firmer fabric like heavier linen or cotton is best. Kona is prepared for dyeing (PFD) in this white.
I set this up outside on my outside table (use a cloth or newspaper to protect the surface from dripping wax). You can dip anything that won’t melt into hot wax, including metal cookie cutters (use a wood clothespin as a handle), blocks of wood, dowels, cardboard rolled tubes, etc.
I used a tool called a tjanting (prounounced canting) tool which is a pen-shaped tool with a small reservoir. You dip/scoop the wax into the tjanting and draw designs on the fabric.
