Primitive Fish Handmade Indonesian Copper Tjap notions This is Karen Kay Buckley's

This is Karen Kay Buckley's first pair of straight blade scissors

An additional black 45 degree line is placed so that two angles cross 1/4 inch away from the outside edge

12 wt 100% Long Staple Egyptian Cotton thread that has been double-gassed (burning off the lint from the thread two times

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and more are common and are to be embraced

Primitive Fish Handmade Indonesian Copper Tjap notions This is Karen Kay Buckley'sONE LEFT Primitive Fish, approximately 4 in. tall x 3 in. wide. Tjaps, pronounced chops, are beautiful copper batik stamps used to apply wax in the batik process. Our artisans in Indonesia handcraft these tjaps from narrow rolls of copper and copper wire, using simple tools but achieving very sophisticated effects. While designed to stamp wax patterns into fabric, tjaps are also useful to fiber and mixed media artists for creating rubbings with Shiva