Custom t shirt malaysia- Manufacturer and Supplier | T-shirt Printing Malaysia
Nelson Mandela is often seen wearing an intricately patterned shirt in vivid colors. Most people probably assume this is a tribal design using an age-old African method of dyeing cloth. In fact, the shirts Mandela proudly sports have their origins halfway across the world, on the islands of the Malay archipelago, where the cloth is known as batik. The tradition of producing batik cloth was brought to South Africa by Javanese laborers forcibly transported by the Dutch East India Company to the Western Cape. The Madiba shirt (named after Mandela's clan name) adapts traditional batik using African colors and motifs and demonstrates its versatility and widespread appeal. T Shirt Printing Malaysia Batik is probably the most famous of the resist methods of dyeing cloth. Resist dyeing involves applying a substance that stops dye from reaching certain parts of the fabric in order to create a pattern. This method can use wax (as in Javanese batik), rice paste (Japanese tsutsugaki) or ca...