The tradition of making batik is found in various countries, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, India, Sri Lanka and Philippines.
Batik culture is pretty much famous in Malaysia, and you can commonly see the batik clothing in boutiques or shopping malls. And if you have been following my blog, you would also realize that batik painting demo can also be spotted in most local event that I went too.
Kelantan and Terengganu is most famous for producing batik clothings in Malaysia, but if you are living in Klang Valley or is visiting Selangor, there is one place where you can shop for exclusively designed batik; Barakaff Exclusive.
Barakaff Exclusive.The boutique is located somewhere in a residential area around Jalan Gombak, Selangor and selling exclusively designed batik clothings. All clothings sold in this boutique is exclusively designed. The batik prints is hand drawn and painted individually, so if you’re to buy any clothing from Barakaff Exclusive and wear it to any events, you won’t have to worry about accidentally wearing the same clothing as someone else.
Batik dresses in pastels for women
Batik shirts for men
Pretty, aren’t they?
Modern dress with batik prints on it. Certainly look like something you would see on the runway. Needless to say, I bought a pair of dress for myself and a shirt for my husband. I just couldn’t resist those sweet pastel designs. It is not something I usually see elsewhere ; where the batik prints are usually in daring and bright colours. The designs from Barakaff Exclusive is definitely a refreshing addition to our wardrobe.
Barakaff Exclusive have plenty of modern and traditional clothing for you to choose from, and during my visit to this boutique, I was told that all the clothing here are made in house, and they have a workshop at the back of the boutique to produce the batiks that’s being sold in the outlet.
The workshop where batik are printed with blocks or exclusively hand painted.
Batik cloth in the making. The process is definitely long and tedious one. Batik is a technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to whole cloth, or cloth made using this technique. Batik is made either by drawing dots and lines of the resist with a spouted tool called a canting, or by printing the resist with a copper stamp called a cap. The applied wax resists dyes and therefore allows the artisan to colour selectively by soaking the cloth in one colour, removing the wax with boiling water, and repeating if multiple colours are desired.
Semi finished batik produce being hung up to dry.
We were also given a chance go try our hands at batik painting.
But obviously, I’m no artist and mine came out pretty weird. But well, it is a wonderful experience regardless, to be able to visit the workshop and try my hands at batik painting.
Here’s one for the album. Posing with our masterpieces. 🙂
Below is the information to Barakaff Exclusive should you are interested in getting yourselves some exclusively designed batik clothings.
Address:
Barakaff Exclusive
Lot 2095, Batu 9,
Jalan Gombak,
53000 Selangor.
Email: [email protected]
Facebook: Barakaff Batik
Contact: Syed Ahmad: 013-6666322
A great place to show traditional costume. But I think your butterfly quite nice and as long as you really enjoyed the process of doing it ^^
Such a lovely experience to visit Batik!~ Your batik looks good what.. weird meh?
Im no artist too 😛 but it’s good to appreciate arts once in a while!
oh batik! such an exquisite art 🙂 really nice if the wearer knows how to pair nicely. Your batik prints aren’t that weird la, good try there!
I love their batik dress. They very expert in batik. Thank you for sharing.
The lady batik dress looks so modern and beautiful. Traditional with modern style. Wow…
I like the modern dress batik. I love batik so much, use to have the dress but I cannot fit in anymore and giveaway.
it’s been ages since I went to a batik painting demo. Time to revisit it again. Btw, your design looks fantastic
I tried batik painting once long time ago~~~
It is quite fun experience~~~
I like batik but hardly wear any…. I have bought some batik before though, and they are all from Terengganu somehow. But then again, it’s not as if I know how to differentiate the different motifs.
I would love to try my hands at batik painting !! Looks really intresting!
Nowadays batik quite hard to find batik. Batik also can be quite fashionable actually 😉
Not bad lar, i thought this place only in terengganu and kelantan only. Great to know that this place is here in Selangor now !
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love the batik art!! just so amazing !!
Remember the last time when hearing about batik was during my highschool. It was many years ago! Thanks for sharing such a great place for batik clothing. Should check it out if I go to Gombak. =)
Batik!! something that i always love to see. i want to try batik painting 🙂
nampak cantik and batik is something need to promote as is malaysia pride.
I’ve actually heard this brand before.. or something similar. the last time i tried batik painting was in penang, when I was still a student. Very cool to make though!
Love your butterfly drawing oh! Is was quite an experience to visit how they draw batik!
Cool! Never knew they had this in Malaysia. Shall bring my foreign friends here when i get the chance to 😀
hey batik in pastel is really nice la i wanna have some of those dresses too, and your batik painting actually came out quite nice, unique!
Interesting, thanks for sharing this place for someone would like to get exclusive designed batik clothing 🙂
wow! interesting & awesome experience! If possible, I also want to join the batik painting myself 🙂 Do we need to pay it?
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i love that Modern dress with batik prints ^^
i only have 1 “baju kurung” … i bought when i high school … still can wear 😛
What a nice experience you must have had dear. All that batik looks lovely 😀
Batik is a dying art among our younger generation. Glad to know there are places that still exhibits them and offers the such lessons to DIY.
So this is the batik art. They all look amazing!
Wow, the whole outfit in red was amazing! I would totally buy that for myself 🙂 Thanks to your post I know now where to get one of a kind batik prints blouses and shirts for my husband. Would love to go check the whole batik making process myself one day! Loved the post, signing up to your blog!
Hey, Barakaff Batik or Barakaff Collection is still open till today so if any of you are interested to purchase a HANDMADE batik or exclusive one, you can have a visit to this butik. The address is still the same but the contact number isn’t. FB page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BarakaffCollection/about/?ref=page_internal or IG: barakaff.ele.ganza Contact number:0173889358