Over the past century the Indonesian art of batik-making has become firmly established in Sri Lanka. The Batik industry in Sri Lanka is a small scale industry which can employ individual design talent and creativity. It's economic benefit is profit from dealing with foreign customers. It is now the most visible of the island's crafts with galleries and factories, large and small, having sprung up in many tourist areas. Rows of small stalls selling batiks can be found all along Hikkaduwa's Galle Road strip. Mahawewa, on the other hand, is famous for its batik factories.
Batiks incorporate many motifs and colours, some traditional, others highly contemporary and individual. Many display a vigorousness of design related to their origin. The material created by the batik-makers is used to produce distinctive dresses, shirts, sarongs and beachwear well-suited for tropical climes. Many tourists at seaside resorts such as Hikkaduwa wear batik clothes throughout their holiday. Apart from clothes, tablecloths, wall pictures, beach clothes, pure cotton and silk, men's and ladies' wear and bed covers are popular as a reminder of a visit to Sri Lanka.
Batiks originated many centuries ago with the villagers and tribesmen of what are now the countries of Indonesia and Malaysia and has been brought to Sri Lanka by the Dutch. The promotion of the village arts is a way of keeping alive an important part of a vibrant and beautiful culture. Many of Sri Lanka's batik paintings are imported directly from Javanese village artists. They use 100-percent cotton cloth and all dyes used are colour-fast.
The batik art panels provide quilters, craft and home sewers, and interior designers with an opportunity to combine an ancient art form with a contemporary use. Since each batik piece is individually handmade, the colours and designs may vary. Originally, when batik-making was a cottage industry, one artist created the entire batik from start to finish.
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Batik industry in Sri Lanka
Why Beaut Batik is so special?
Beaut Batik was founded in year 2014, taken from English word “Beaut” which means pulchritude or captivating. Beaut Batik is a batik brand which hopes to conserve as well as try to make Sri Lankan batik to become modern and high quality batik so that it is well received locally and internationally. The vision and mission of Beaut Batik is to raised batik so it became part of the world culture and make batik as an international fashion with high quality design and materials. Beaut Batik produces unique, modern and high quality Sri Lankan Batik. A good quality of batik process as Sri Lankan heritage is our priority.
The Beaut Batik is the most beautiful Sri Lankan textile with traditional motifs and made with the traditional method and color. The Beaut Batik has various motifs and style. The batik is made on a piece of pure cotton or silk cloth that is specially eco-friendly. The cloth used in making the batik is chosen from the woven cotton fabrics. The motifs of the beaut batik are made using a traditional tool called canting. It looks like a tiny teapot. The canting is used to apply the wax containing dye to make the motif. Our batik makers use melted wax and natural dye such as from the trees to make the batik more beautiful and looks natural. The wax is melted and while the wax is still hot, canting is used to take a small part of the wax and then apply it to the white cloth that has been prepared. Our talented batik makers apply the canting and the wax very carefully to create the best handmade batik motifs that are influence by Sri Lankan very traditional un-common carvings and arts. We own more than three thousand batik patterns.
Beaut Batik presents variety of collections which created to become part of today’s men and women lifestyle who always want to look fashionable. Apart from that, selection of materials has always been Beaut concern to prioritize comfort for all fashioners. Due to the maturity of each collection concepts, each available outfit is easily combined with one another to help simplify all batik lovers in choosing their casual or formal look with batik. Beaut Batik expresses the value of Sri Lankan tradition around the world.
The Beaut Batik’s plushy show room is situated in High Level road, Nugegoda where anyone can discover latest fashionable batik designs among variety of colourful collections. You are not well come only for buying items but also for exploring a journy to the world of Beaut Batik at our batik prodcution house. We will promise it would be unmemorable experience that you would love take back home.
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People behind Beaut Batik
Beaut Batik celebrates the lives and hands behind batik, a craft that is regarded as Sri Lankan’s most powered intangible heritage. From all the workers of 80 behind the production of Beaut Batik, mainly female 20 of them are fashion designers and 30 of them are weavers and 20 of motifs designers and two supervisors other batik makers along with management team who joined throughout the batik process at our batik production house. Mainly our motifs designers respond to their own image by making batik patterns on them.
Beaut Batik is the outcome of batik process and art-making journey with these ladies. The artists, through this project, acknowledge the role of women as culture-makers in the Sri Lankan society and explore their relationships with their families. The fate of Sri Lankan traditional batik for the future lies in their hands.
Even though it has been almost 1 years of starting the new brand Beaut Batik we are like family. The employees are the very best to us and they are irreplaceable!
The feeling of wax on our fingers
Co-founder and President
Mr. Fernando is considered as the architect of the Beaut Batik. He put his nose to the grindstone and did his very best to revitalize the industry.
"We tried our very best and I never gave up. And my daughter also came into the scene and we together developed it. She did a lot of work having studied as a fashion designer. She did a lot of work to bring it back to the current trend and innovating better market through ecommerce technology. Batiks at that time were involved in fashion but not that fashionable. The Batik dresses were not fashionable but she made it a Sri Lankan fashion. She gave it a Sri Lankan identity. Beaut Batiks meant a Sri Lankan identity,” said Fernando.
Today it is an up market product. As well as there is an international market now. If you have a good product - good color, good design and good fabric with high quality - then it is not a problem. Beau Batik e-commerce site’s long-term opportunity to approximate our products and services to overseas and local consumers immediately,” Miss Rukshika the daughter of Fernando added.
Fernando pointed out that there is a work force enough to meet the demand. “You maybe a designer or an artist but you still need a good team. An experienced team has to be there. So we are pond of a sufficient staff.
For me it’s also about creating a community that I want to be part of and to live in. It’s not easy running an enterprise but I have always had tremendous support and I want to give that back.
I 'Every time you entered to our batik workshop, you would greet our female batik maker, you would greet her with a hearty handshake. The sensation of her fingers always felt warm and sticky from the “wax” they have been using. She would be exclaiming with apologies for her wax-coated hands. But in full appreciation of her un-yielding commitment to her designs and this journey of ours that she can constantly inspired, the sensation of touching her fingers eternalized as a beautiful one.h. Click here to add your own text and edit me. I’m a great place for you to tell a story and let your users know a little more about you.