Lesson Twenty-Two: Batik–continued
This is a 1927 lesson sheet from Fireside Industries, a batik instruction series in a textiles design course, with plates numbered as color-key stencils for dyeing cloth. The first plate shows a black-and-white stencil of stylized flowers and leaves with a striped vase, the second a kimono-clad figure in a circle keyed by letters for colors such as yellow, orange, red and purple, and the third a photograph-like image of a sailing ship at night, captioned as a batik design. A designer could take from them the outlined, flat stencil method with resist lines and the letter-coded palette of the wax-resist process.
