When you do batik, art teacher Gwen Harleman said, you can take a little brush, or maybe a cookie cutter, and use it to apply melted wax to a piece of silk. Your design can be an angel, a heart or a ...

For more than 40 years, Sylvia Ridgway from Victoria, P.E.I., has been perfecting her own style of batik. Ridgway has come a long way since attending a night art class in Kingston, Ontario in 1973, ...