Artist attempts longest batik<\/p>\n
SINGAPORE: Sleeping two hours a day for the past five days, a 62-
\nyear-old Singapore artist hopes to enter the record books with
\nthe world's longest batik painting.<\/p>\n
A visibly tired Sarkasi Said had finished the 100 meter by 0.7
\nmeter Indonesian-style painting of orchids on Tuesday morning and
\nplanned to submit the entry to the Guinness Book of World
\nRecords, a spokeswoman for Sarkasi said.<\/p>\n
His painting of purple and yellowish flowers and shooting
\ngreen stems was inspired by Singapore's Botanic Gardens, using a
\nmodern adaptation of Indonesia's centuries-old traditional batik
\ntextile art of dyes and wax.<\/p>\n
Known in Singapore as the "baron of batik", the Muslim artist
\nhas won several local awards for his batik art, usually drawn
\nwith dyes and a container of wax on washed and boiled silk.
\n--Reuters<\/p>",
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