Peace Baby Batiks

Peace, Baby! Batiks baby bodysuits and kids shirts are fun, one-of-a-kind T-shirts and bodysuits for babies and toddlers. Every item is designed to become your child's favorite shirt! Since my business opened in 2009, I have been designing for fun, using shapes kids love, like trucks, animals, and holiday shapes. I choose bold colors – the fiber reactive procion dyes I use produce vibrant colors that don’t fade. I began making multicolor batik shirts because I love bright color combinations and the flexibility of dyeing with more than one color. I work with 100 percent cotton premade garments and use soy wax to paint my designs onto the garments. When the wax soaks through the cotton, it prevents the dye from taking in that area. Before I put each garment into the dye bath to soak, I crack the wax to create little veins of color throughout the design. This might be my favorite part of batik. The wax always reacts differently to cracking, and the dye always takes differently. No two T-shirts are ever exactly alike, even if they’re the same design and color.