Yogyakarta is a city located in central Java, Indonesia. It is best known for its many universities and for its craft traditions.

Batik is a system of dying fabric using a resist method. A design is drawn on the cloth in pencil and then is traced with molten wax on both sides of the fabric. Two types of tools may be used for this:

• The canting looks like a pipe with a thin tube coming from the bowl. The canting is dipped into molten wax to fill the bowl, and the wax runs out of the tube. It is used to draw lines and dots.
• The cap is a fixed metal design that is pressed onto a hot pad soaked in wax, and then onto the cloth. It is used to quickly repeat a design.

The cloth is then dipped into a bath of dye. The design in wax prevents those areas being dyed. The process may be repeated many times, each time adding more wax and then dipping into a dye of a different colour.

When the process of waxing and dyeing is complete, the cloth is boiled to remove the wax.

	These women are using canting to draw designs onto the cloth in wax.
	This woman is scraping off some of the wax so that those areas can pick up the next colour used.
	Here are a few different cap, with the pad of hot wax behind them.
	This man is using a cap to create a border design around the cloth.