THE BATIK PAINTINGS AT PENANG'S BATIK MUSEUM

  17TH DECEMBER 2022  - In our every day life, batik would be something that we wear. However, at the Batik Museum, visitors would be in awe, admiring batik paintings which had been turned into work of art.

If you are an art lover, you could spend hours here, looking at each and every piece of local and foreign batik paintings displayed on the walls.

VISITING THE BATIK MUSEUM IN GEORGETOWN

  17TH DECEMBER 2022  ~ The next museum discovered in Penang was the Batik Museum, which was actually just a few doors away from the hotel where I was staying in Armenian Street.

The batik displayed was however not related to the fashion industry, but it was an art gallery which displayed batik paintings as the form of art.

The museum housed the personal collections of batik paintings and I was just amazed how could someone possessed such a huge collection of those items and they came not only from Malaysia, but also from other Asian countries as well.

NEXT: The batik paintings at the Batik Museum

SHOPPING BATIK SHIRTS AT THAMRIN CITY MALL IN JAKARTA

14th MARCH 2020 ~ One of the main objectives going to Jakarta this time was to find batik shirts for the Angklung Group that I trained in SMK Taman Universiti. One place that we found was Thamrin City Mall, which was actually not that far from the hotel we were staying.

This was a multi-level mall that sold mostly batik shirts and fabric for both men and women but there were other non-batik materials as well.

The biggest challenge would be to choose as there were just too many shops that were offering all kinds of designs and patterns, I was spoiled for choice. You could get items from very cheap to very expensive, depending on the quality of the printing and fabric, as well as how the shirts were tailored.

Mission was successfully accomplished and I walked out with a bundle of batik shirts. Unfortunately, they have not been worn up until today as co-curricular activities were not allowed to be conducted in school since the C-19 pandemic started in March.

There was a food court on the top floor of the mall so we just got our lunch there.

fried rice

This place was huge. I discovered there was another building attached to the one I went earlier, selling batik too. Definitely the place I would go back for more batik in the future, and I just cannot wait.