In the Blaudruck apprenticeship
April – May 2026 In November 2025 I got the news I was selected by KF Hein Fonds as one of the ‘Grensverleggers’ artists. My plan, which was a longtime …
Research
Research projects by Sabine Bolk
The meaning of the white kebaya – researchproject with Dido Michielsen
Since September 2023 I have been working with Dido Michielsen on the history, development and use of the white (European style lace) kebaya. The Kebaya was nominated as Unesco intangible …
Talk Decolonizing Batik Belanda: Women, Memory and the Art of Shared Heritage for WINNER
Recorded on 8 October as part of the WINNER conference This research project by Dr. Aniendya Christianna and Sabine Bolk explores “Batik Belanda” (a hybrid form of batik that emerged …
9 & 10 July 2025 – ASEAN Fabrics Symposium
Malaysia ASEAN Chairmanship 2025 Held at Sasana Kijang Auditorium, Bank Negara Malaysua, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia To register fill in the online form here
Things That Talk zone ‘Fabric(s) of Leiden’
In 2021 I started working with Fresco Sam-Sin of Things That Talk to put the history of De Leidse Katoenmaatschappij (LKM / Leiden Cotton Printing Company) on the digital map. …
Disclosing of the Driessen Collection, Textielmuseum Tilburg
Photo by Cees de Jonge at the library of Textielmuseum Tilburg Last year the Textielmuseum (textile museum) in Tilburg, the Netherlands, started to disclose one of their oldest museum collections, …
3-6 November – Speaker at 8th IASSRT Symposium
Textiles Trails: Legacies of the Silk Roads in Southeast Asia THE 8TH IASSRT SYMPOSIUM will be held in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, also known as Laos, along with ATTS …
3 oktober – De witte kebaya, toen en nu bij KB
In 2023 werd de kebaya aangedragen voor erkenning als immaterieel erfgoed van Indonesië, Brunei, Maleisië, Singapore en Thailand. De Unesco-nominatie was voor schrijfster Dido Michielsen en kunstenaar/onderzoeker Sabine Bolk de …
Batik Research Exercise
This Batik Research Exercise, International Provenance Research Day Edition, is based on the Batik Research Workshop created for and given during the exhibition ‘Masa depan Batik | Future of Batik’ …
Provenance of the Prankemon sarongs
Publication ‘Provenance #4’ by Wereldmuseum (former NMvW) is out now! “Carolina Josephina von Franquemont (1817-1867) is a prominent name within the batik textile community. She is seen as the first …
OP ZOEK NAAR WITTE KEBAYA’S
Hoeveel kebaya’s/kebaja’s had jouw (voor)moeder? En waren die allemaal wit? Misschien heb je er nog eentje of meer liggen, in de kamferkist of linnenkast. En wie weet wil je die …
Research report on Prankemon Green
So excited to finally share this. In the making since I started my position as a Research Associate at Research Center for Material Culture (RCE) in 2019. To research and …
24 June 2023 – Online talk ‘Developments in Batik history in the 19th century’
The speaker who will be participating in the webinar called “Developments in Batik history in the 19th century, imitations and other influences from abroad” is Sabine Bolk (1984). Sabine Bolk …
Business card & Batik Consultation Suze Zijlstra
Two years ago, in 2020, historian and author Suze Zijlstra asked me if I knew someone to design her business card. She wanted something maybe with batik and referring to …
17 December 2021 until 12 June 2022 – Exhibition ‘Misleiden’ at De Lakenhal
Real or fake? That’s the question in Misleiden – Fakes from art and science. Stroll offline and online past more than twenty objects from nine Leiden collections that put you on …
Magazine BATIK! out now
Months in the making and finally here, the magazine BATIK! After we, me, Romée Mulder & Myrthe Groot, hosted the Batik Stand in 2019, the Tong Tong Fair invited us …
Batik Stand Online – Batik Consultation with Cindy Smits
In this Digital Batik Consultation we talk with Cindy Smits about two special Batiks from her grandmother. What can these Batiks tells us? This Batik Consultation was released online on …
Batik Stand Online – Batik Consultation with Rachel de Vries
In this second Batik Consultation we talk with Rachel de Vries who we met in 2019 at the Tong Tong Fair when she visited our Batik Stand and showed us …
Staal 100 – RCMC Research Associate
What started as a simple looking into things, ended up in an intens research of already 3 years. When I make the mistake to type in some search words in …
Project Re-telling the history of the (Indo-)European influence on Batik
Initiated by artist and batikblogger Sabine Bolk The project consist of three parts:Part I – Research at RCMC, from June 2019 until June 2021Part II – Exchange on Java – …