Passionate about Batik, Tori Riley is the guest today on the Stitchery Stories podcast. Tori shares her story of being inspired by Batik as a young child living in Java, and how her love of it has led her to running workshops and talks, whilst being a busy mum of four!

Susan Weeks chats with Tori about:

• Who else wanted a colouring job when they grew up?
• an inspiring gap year absorbing the Indonesian culture and drawing
• influences from a childhood spent living in several places around the world
• combining batik and embroidery
• making it easy to started with an idea in a workshop
• how to do batik
• the challenge of marking out your design for batik
• labelling our work so future generations know more about it
• what equipment is needed for batik making
• how to apply the wax
• what type of dye to use for batik
• how do you get the wax out afterwards
• when developing some film created performance art

And so much more!

For this episode:

View Show Notes, Links & Examples of Tori's work at https://www.stitcherystories.com/toririley

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Email: [email protected]

Call: 07455 885 797

Other artists episodes you might like:

Diane Gaffney from Textile Traders, who also loves Batik! https://www.stitcherystories.com/dianegaffney/