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| My "new" tjap! |
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I just love Dharma Trading! I was on an email "alert" list to be contacted whenever they got in a shipment of copper tjaps (pronounced
chops from Indonesia. Here's what the
Dharma website says about them:
These approximately 50 year old collectible tools called Tjaps (or Chops), have been made and used on the island of Java for over a century. They are handmade of copper strips, carefully cut, shaped and soldered into fabulous shapes and patterns. They are used by Batik artists in Java by dipping them into hot wax, shaking off the excess, and then stamping the wax onto the cloth.
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| Another view (background is a batik fabric made earlier this year) |
I heated up some soy wax this evening and tried out the tjap. Hmmm . . .LOTS of excess wax and very little design. I need to work on my technique!
Stay tuned for photos of this experiment.
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