Meet Our Vendors: Margot Bianca

Batik: a cloth that traditionally uses a manual wax-resist dyeing technique found in exotic places.

Once you understand that, and have a look at Margot Bianca’s line of napkins, tea towels, table runners and bandanas, you are transported to a third-world market filled with the smells and sounds of an extraordinary vacation.

She prints hot wax onto fabric, puts it into fabric reactor dyes, lets it sit for days (much patience required), then boils to remove the wax and the pattern is imprinted on the cloth. She tries to include as many eco-friendly practices as possible including using rainwater, which she will have plenty of this week as she gets ready for the Handmade Holiday show.

By the way, her super power is stamina …she never gets tired, hungry or cold. No rest for the weary and no rest necessary for Margot.

http://www.margotbianca.etsy.com/