Holiday Inn & Batik Factory

so saturday morning, after our stomach-filled breakfast, mum wanted to get out for some sight-seeing... so we went to the Batik Factory at Teluk Bahang....

the batik factory was a small place, not very fancy, i guess they wanted to keep it that way for the authentic feel and also for the tourists.....

so on about 3 walls, there were these molds that were used for batik.... these molds have different designs..... and i'm sure some of em are like very old....

this is the wax pot and all the chantings (wax-pens) lined up there.... the chanting is used to hand-draw designs on the cloth with wax... so one must be good at designing free-style.... i'm sure they use pre-designed motives but it's more unique having it hand-drawn....

one of the designs on the rack, they are all hand-drawn but with a specific design.... the outlines are from the chanting used with wax and the filled in colour is dye.... the dye-ing process are also done by hand and it needs skill too on how to blend the colours and know which colour works best where...

here's a lady colouring the design....

me at the batik factory.....

though the factory is interesting, unfortunately the ppl/workers there are not that friendly.... i tried asking them questions on the process of batik making, they just gave me one word answers and didn't bother to explain.... maybe it's because i am local.. or that it was during lunch time that i came to visit them..... so.... sigh.... how la, want to attract tourists??

didn't really take much "nice" ones, the other pics i took were all saja-saja pics... hahaha somehow i sort of lure-d my mum into bakaring... heheheh, she thought she could sit under the shade, but somehow the sun moved and we were NOT in the shade! hahahha.....

i did soak myself in the sea, but it was not very comfortable, the sea had boats and jet-ski going up and down, and the sea was not that clean... so, i just sat in the water and lepak! hahahah