Design of the mBatik, textile hot wax applicator to emulate hand drawn batik using CNC plotter machine and characterization of wax plotting parameters

Abstract

Hand drawn textiles wax dyeing process (batik tulis) has been known as the cultural heritage of Indonesia. Batik is the process of pattern coloring on fabric using selective wax coating as barrier to dyes. The encouragement of industrial revolution 4.0 concurrently with efforts to preserve Indonesian cultural heritage has motivated this research to design the mBatik, a hand drawn batik machine, a touch of advanced technology for Indonesian batik tulis traditions. the mBatik consists of a CNC plotter sub-system and a textile hot wax applicator sub-system as an automatic canting. The development of machine design and virtual prototype testing was done using the Inventor application. Continued by fabricating the 3D model components of the mBatik machine using a 3D printer and manual assembly of the mBatik machine. The characterization of the waxing process on the fabric was explored using this machine. The characterization concluded that the thickness of the wax line(Y) was significantly affected by the heating power(X 1 ) and wax filling volumes(X 2 ) with the linear regression function of Y = -0.07007 + 0.01637 X 1 + 0.00805 X 2 and the R square value of 0.9526.