做法、成品與動作
三個意思其實是同一件事被英文從三個角度叫出來：過程、結果、動作。
noun · B2
A way of putting coloured patterns on cloth: you paint wax on the parts you want to keep their colour, then dye the cloth, and the waxed parts stay as they were.
蠟染（技法）
核心畫面
You can hold one picture for the whole word: hot wax drawn on cloth, and dye that cannot get past it. Wherever the wax sits, the colour stays out and the cloth keeps what it had; everywhere else takes the new colour. Melt the wax off and the pattern is there. That single picture stretches three ways in English. It names the method, it names the cloth that comes out of the method, and it can be used as a verb for doing it. The wax line is the thing all three share.
整個字可以用一個畫面記住：熱蠟畫在布上，染料過不去。有蠟的地方顏色進不來，布就保留原樣；沒有蠟的地方吃色。最後把蠟煮…更多收起
整個字可以用一個畫面記住：熱蠟畫在布上，染料過不去。有蠟的地方顏色進不來，布就保留原樣；沒有蠟的地方吃色。最後把蠟煮掉，圖案就浮出來。這一個畫面在英文裡往三個方向延伸：它可以指這套做法，可以指做出來的布，也可以直接當動詞用。三個用法共享的，就是那一條擋住顏色的蠟線。From the word’s history
Wiktionary gives the word as borrowed from Javanese bathik. The craft and its name travelled together from Java, which is why English has no home-grown word for it.
依 Wiktionary，batik 是從爪哇語 bathik 借進英文的。技法和名字是一起從爪哇傳出來的，所以英文並沒有另外造一個自己的說法。
Wiktionary entry for batik, etymology_text supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:614840084:12657)
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