Batik Table Runner

I'm not much of a frills type of person but following a request I have done this batik table runner with some decorative ends.

The batik is my favorite Sarung Batik Terengganu in red .. it has such a strong commercial touch yet depicts the vibrant spirit of Melayu.

Making use of the two available designs from the sarung I have done the back motif for one side and the body design for the other side. As the length of the runner is more than one and a half meter the side borders are made use to emphasize geometric design. A beautiful bead tassel with a little decorative copper like leave dangles at both ends of the runner providing weight and aesthetic feature.

Hope it is acceptable by you Mr. Lim.

Green Batik Table Cloth 04

Phewh! The last one for this order.

Long Batik Table Cloth 03

Waah! Three down one to go. You'd probably seen one similar to this one I finished earlier.

Similar yes, however this one is of different pattern of our Batik Terengganu.

Highlighted here is the napkins to go with the table cloth. The table cloth layout is with the icon back of the sarung running length wise in the center.

Long Batik Table Cloth

Today begins the season of Hajj. Malaysian first group of 300 to be Hajjahs and Hajis arrived safely in Madinah. Soon millions of Muslim will pack Meccah and Madinah awaiting for the day of Wukuf. There is no Haji without Wukuf at Arafah according to a tradition from Rasulullah SAW. Come the day for Wukuf at Arafah, we muslims in our own countries are encourage to fast. We will later celebrate Eidul Hajj the next day when the pilgrams throw stones at the Jamarul Aqaba symbolizing self cleansing. And it is the day for Korban.

This post is to show off a recently completed table cloth from our Sarung Batik Terengganu. This table cloths is for eight seating and so it is quite a large one. It will later sits in Australia.

Green Table Cloth

Round, Red and Ridiculously Hot Table Cloth

A table is truly a plain object. Photography of plain object I find is very challenging. On sewing craft I have done a few beautiful table cloths out of Batik Terengganu but to show it off herein this blog, the photography just doesn't do them justice. Under indoor lighting and not so good camera setting, the visibility of both my beautiful work and the beautiful batik artwork did not project themselves.

So, to bring out the most of this recently completed batik table cloth for my foreign customer I've decided to take the table cloth out of the dining room setting and out in the gardens for my photography shoot. Now, enjoy and feast your eyes on the strikingly red round table cloth amidst my Misai Kucing plant, Kembang Pagi flowers and on my drying line.

The piece I'm sharing today is similar to the first round table cloth I did earlier. This piece is made out of four batik sarungs. The table cloth is cut out from the main body of the sarungs. While the napkins were cut out from the head of the sarungs. The pieces for the table cloth were laboriously put together like a four cut cake cutting. This way gives more accuracy to get the points together than my previous effort of working with eight pieces. The result is just truly lovely and breathtaking.

Round Batik Table Cloth and Napkins

This project turns four batik sarung pieces into a round table cloth for six with matching square napkins. Since the requirement is for a 72" diameter round piece I had to piece the body of the sarungs together.

Here there is a total of eight pizza shape pieces, two from each sarung, sewn sharp ends together. Then from the sarung head, I got eight square napkins, two from each sarung head.

As I don't have a round dining table to test this table cloth on just use your imagination to see the piece. It's like a very large pizza sliced into eight - matching motifs at opposite sides.

"Would you like to have a cuppa honey!"

Nothing like a hot sweet tea with peppermint to have with freshly baked muffins! Hmmm.








P.S. Excuse the overall dark appearance of the photos. Placing the folded napkins on the table cloth for close up shoot was a mistake. Should have just used white background. Anyways .. enjoy. Especially you Norlin!! Muuah.