Finally, the wax is removed with hot water, and the fabric is rinsed several times in order to remove excess dye and wax residue.

Besides hand-drawn batik, there is also block-printed batik, Homecoming Dresses is done by means of a metal block made by welding together strips of metal. The block is dipped into molten wax and pressed against the fabric in order to make the pattern.

Batik has also been long known in Sri Lanka as it has been very much a part of the Short Prom Dresses art and craft circle, said Somali Dharmawardena, artist-cum-fashion designer.

Just like in Indonesia, batik in Sri Lanka has been going through ups and downs. There were times when batik died as a craft and nobody did anything about it.

Then in the late 1960s or early 1970s, a man Black Prom Dresses on Sale Vipula Dharmawardena, who is Somali's father-in-law, revived the industry and brought a whole new dimension to it.

"He was a poor man in a village and he became a mega-millionaire with his batik. He reintroduced the trend of batik to Sri Lanka and revived it to make it one of the strongest commercial industries in the local market from the late 1960s to the early `80s," Somali said.

But with the flooding of the market and a situation where people wanted to make quick money, the industry started shrinking again. The civil war worsened the situation, causing the batik industry to become dormant.

The 41-year-old woman was inspired to revive the Blue Prom Dresses on Sale of batik when she saw some of Vipula's masterpieces.

"I thought it was a beautiful thing so why did people not use it? I'm an artist, I did not know anything about batik, but when I looked at it I thought it was lovely. I thought it would be nice if I started to use a little bit of batik," she said.

But the problem was the design was out-of-date.

"When you look at things like that, you need to have tradition but you also need to make it more modern. You stick to the same frame but you modernize it.

"You might be able to use very traditional things, let's say, Green Prom Dresses on Sale in the inner lining or just for the color," she added.

So she started playing around with batik and using it. Somali, for instance, takes a piece of batik and puts it on traditional cloth saris.

Sri Lankan batik, she explained, is a bit different from the Indonesian. With the Sri Lankan batik, the motifs are a little bigger. But the technique of batik making is fairly similar to the one used in Indonesia.