Museum of Textile
Nineteenth-century mansion of Indonesian textiles, with batik classes and a natural dye garden.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Museum of Textile in Jakarta starts with the words of Yeni, a batik teacher who ran classes here, and the hot wax her students learned to handle. It turns to the mid nineteen seventies, when textile lovers worried that traditional cloth was vanishing from daily life, and to the nineteenth century house they were given. Best heard near the garden at the back, under the trees grown for colouring cloth.
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