Production of batik is a long and complicated process and it is all handmade. There are two main types of batik called hand-stamped and hand-painted. Both use hot melted wax as a means of defining the motif on the fabric. A copper stamp of approximately 30 cm that is dipped in hot wax and then onto the fabric can be used to make full hand-printed fabrics or placement hand-printed fabrics, this process is called hand-stamping. Hand-painting on the other hand uses a "canting"; a small container filled with hot wax that is held like a pen and which has a small tip out of which the wax flows when put to the fabric. The uniqueness of the batik process ensures that not two batik garments are the same.

In rare cases you will find residual wax on your batik garment, it has a dark brown colour and when it is ironed it can look like a spot of oil and can be removed by washing at high temperature.