Last tuesday, I went to Melaka Batik House as for my final year project matters. I need to do some interview with the staff there and also make a video about the batik canting process. The place was in Melaka, it's not so hard to find it because there were many sign board showing the way to the Melaka Batik House.
In order to record and learn more about batik canting, I took the package for learning how to do the batik canting. The cost not so expensive and I think it's reasonable. Only RM 35 per head for an hour. During the learning session, I gained a lot of information about batik canting. They teach me how to do the canting, from drawing , canting until coloring the batik. That was very meaningful experience.
Other than that, one of the staff there named Rahmah, she told me a lot of story that related to batik canting. On how batik comes to Malaysia and many more. She also teach me on how to differentiate between batik canting design and batik print design, because these two design got differences surface. Puan Rahmah also show me some of the cloth at their butik. Now I know, why some of the batik cost a lot.
During the session, I found that, batik canting was really interesting thing to be learn. Trust me, and it is more expensive than the others is because, batik canting was made by hand, not using a machine. One of the staff shows how to use the canting. Canting is not we draw using the pencil and we can erase it whenever we want. Canting is, once the wax touch the cloth, you can never turn back. Just go ahead, follow the instinct. Puan Rahmah said that, if we do the canting, by following our heart or instinct, the output of the design will be beautiful, and it shows how we feel and our feeling that time.
I learnt a lot. Thank you so much Melaka Batik House.
