Java is a trade-route island, whose 2,000-year-old history has been influenced by a succession of religions and waves of colonisation by Chinese, Indians, Arabs, Portuguese, Dutch and English. Each left its imprint on Javanese culture and the development of batik. The author takes the reader on a spellbinding tour of the island and on a discovery of batiks history, motifs, and methods of production.
- ISBN10 1306312728
- ISBN13 9781306312721
- Publish Date 1 January 2013 (first published 12 May 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Periplus Editions
- Format eBook
- Pages 245
- Language English