CNA938 Rewind - Stitching Stories: Three Generations of Batik Nyonyas

In ‘Culture Club’ Melanie Oliveiro finds out more about the Peranakan Museum’s ongoing exhibition “Batik Nyonyas: Three Generations of Art and Entrepreneurship”.  Curator Naomi Wang will explain how the exhibition steps into the lives of three batik makers turned master artists from Pekalongan in Java, Indonesia, a celebrated batik centre of the early 20th century.  Wang will talk about the creative lives of Nyonya Oeij Soen King, her daughter-in-law Nyonya Oeij Kok Sing, and her granddaughter Jane Hendromartono. Wang will also discuss the history of batik making as a dynamic process and art form, and new ways of thinking about entrepreneurship.