Tori Riley: Batik Inspiration

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 Like: https://www.facebook.com/Batik-Inspiration-720549448141697/ Look: https://www.instagram.com/batikinspirationuk/ 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/