In Indonesia, the batik method of dying fabric involves using wax to make complex patterns.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

B.J.Adams sewed the drawings onto special fabric which melted away after she washed it.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

This joyous section includes oil paintings, woodcuts,drawings,sculpture,photographs, fabric art and more.

VOA: special.2011.02.11

Today,Fasotex only prints designs on fabric, it does not turn the raw cotton into cloth like it used to.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Underneath the designs, the fabric itself is imported from Benin, even though Burkina Faso is Africa's largest producer of cotton.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

It is the final step in the complex production of batik, a technique that uses wax to create elaborate designs on fabric.

VOA: standard.2010.04.14

(SPEAKING) National Union of Cotton Producers Coordinator Leonce Sanon says Burkina Faso has a very weak capacity to turn cotton into fabric.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Moments later she slaps the fabric down on concrete and squeezes out the water with her toes.

VOA: standard.2010.04.14

And a large part of it is because I think the rural areas are still culturally closer to the core of our society, and the fabric,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

But given time and given the leadership that each of you can provide, the torn fabric of society will be woven together, stitch by stitch, choice by choice,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.12