| Page | |
| Acid colors | 46 |
| All-over dyeing | 35-42 |
| Basic colors | 46 |
| Block printing | 126-130 |
| Characteristics of batiks | 14-22 |
| Colors, mixing of | 49-53 |
| Costumes, decoration of | 79-85 |
| Crackle | 14 |
| Designs, old batik | 23-34 |
| Direct colors | 45-46 |
| Direct coloring, method of | 43-44 |
| Discharge process | 43-44 |
| Dye-baths, preparation of | 37-39 |
| Dyeing over old color | 36, 52-53 |
| Dyeing, shaded | 41 |
| Dyes | 45-49 |
| Dyes, setting of | 44 |
| End papers | 77 |
| Fabrics, drying of | 41-42 |
| Fabrics, dyeing of | 35-53 |
| Fabrics, preparation of | 35-37 |
| Frame, batik | 55, 57-58 |
| Graying of colors | 47-50 |
| High school, batiks in | 65-74 |
| History of batiks | 11-22 |
| Holland, batiks in | 12, 21 |
| Interiors, decoration of | 86-96 |
| Japan, batiks in | 21 |
| Japan, stenciling in | 136-137 |
| Java, batiks in | 11-20 |
| Javanese costumes | 16-18 |
| Jewelry, costume | 77-79 |
| Linings | 82 |
| Pattern dyeing | 42-45 |
| Petroplast ornaments | 77-79, 81 |
| Plays and pageants | 97-108 |
| Principles of dyeing | 35-53 |
| Resist processes | 43-45, 54-74 |
| Sarongs | 13, 16 |
| Sizing | 36 |
| Stages, miniature | 98-106 |
| Stencil dyeing | 130-137 |
| Stenciling, Japanese | 136-137 |
| Stenciling, resist | 132-134, 137 |
| Stick printing | 123-127 |
| Stick tying | 45, 116-122 |
| Sulphur colors | 46 |
| Theater, The Little, Dyeing for | 97-108 |
| Tie-dyed work | 109-122 |
| Tjanting | 18, 60 |
| Tjap | 18-20 |
| Vat dyes | 46 |
| Vegetable colors | 48-49 |
| Wax, batik | 14, 58-60 |
| Wax resist processes | 54-74 |
| Wood, decoration of | 54-56 |
Now what I want to do is to put definitely before you a cause for which to strive. That cause is the Democracy of Art, the ennobling of daily and common work, which will one day put hope and pleasure in the place of fear and pain as the forces which move men to labor and keep the world a-going.
·····William Morris
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