Their family textile-dyeing-and-printing trade, handed down for generations, uses natural vegetable dyes and wooden hand blocks for printing.

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Finer examples use traditional vegetable dyes that have a more subdued palette.

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Batik is dyed by proud craftspeople who draw designs on fabric using dots and lines of hot wax, which resists vegetable and other dyes and therefore allows the artisan to colour selectively by soaking the cloth in one colour, removing the wax with boiling water and repeating if multiple colours are desired.

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For Lord McAlpine, the appeal of textiles lies in their imaginative, abstract designs and the subtle colours that come from using vegetable rather than synthetic dyes.

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