I think, if I remembered it correct (ok, my memory might be fuzzy since it was when I was about 5 years when seeing the batiking as the CHEAPest way of dying quilts), in China, they just boil the clothes after dying to get the wax floating on the water. Of course, the cotton cloth can stand the temperature. I guess, you would have to use cotton cloth for this, don't you ? BeeSurgeon