Synthetic dyes replaced natural dyes due to their low cost of time and color fastness,however,as environmental issues rapidly rose during last decades,making efficient use of resources on earth and solving problems in more eco-friendly ways have become the main concern around the globe.Natural dyes then come back to the market with the pros of being harmless to environment and human body,whereas the process of extracting colors of natural materials often requires major amount of water and energy,which is an inevitable burden to earth.This paper aims to make most use of least resources and energy to work with natural dyes,and combine batik techniques to develop new ideas of design.We recycle leftover wood chips from wood furniture factory in Taiwan as dye material and due to the fact that the wood had been chipped into small pieces with larger surface to interact with alcohol,they are in great condition to be extracted color from; 95％ alcohol is used to replace heat while extracting colors from wood chips,which reduces the amount of water and heat used during dyeing process.As the process is done without heat,batik techniques can be applied to create design,meanwhile provides a more eco-friendly color choice aside from traditional indigo and synthetic dyes.Inspired by batik making process in Indonesia while developing new ideas of batik design,we try to combine and accumulate images and colors through dye and bleach,locking tie-dyed patterns and screen-print images created during first dyeing process by wax,and dye the second time with different kind of wood chip to obtain different colors,after removing wax we get unique designs apart from traditional batik fabrics.The process not only reduces the resources and energy to the least but also enables natural dyes to be applied with batik techniques,and,more innovative designs can be developed when combing other surface design skills.
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