batiks

Updated: May 22, 2025

So soon as the Kippewa rolled its burden of forest spoils out upon the broad bosom of the Ottawa the Grand River, as those who live beside its batiks love to call it the work of the river drivers was over.

J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley - The Young Woodsman: Life in the Forests of Canada

This sea of swaying parasols, the gorgeous costumes of the dignitaries, the fantastic uniforms of the soldiery, the richly caparisoned horses, the gilded litters, the burnished weapons, the jewels of the women, the flaunting banners, and the rainbow-tinted batiks worn by the tens of thousands of native spectators combined to form a scene bewildering in its variety, dazzling in its brilliancy and kaleidoscopic in its coloring.

E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell - Where the Strange Trails Go Down: Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits: Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam,: Cochin-China