So, when people hear the word batik many images come to mind. The pictures one might conjure in their head may be the traditional Balinese style stamp batiks, painted silk flower kimono batiks,Hippie style shirts or your moms 70's craft projects. We have been creating batiks mostly in the "hippie"t shirt style for the past 11 years(selling as a company for 10years,if that matters). Mountain Air Batik has become known for making small batches of batiks with an emphasis on the art and not quantity. We have done some wholesale work for a couple of bands and for some companies in Japan but, we choose to keep wholesale at a minimum and do what we do best. So! Music has always been a huge part of Mountain Air Batik and we at one time or another have made shirts for ourselves or freinds of favorite bands, in all that time I thought about how cool it would have been to make a batik shirt of the Slayer logo and even joked that I was going to make one for a friend in Trinidad,Ca. Well, I never did the Slayer logo like I said but, I did make a few batiks for myself that have caught the attention of other like minded music fans and thought that it would make an interesting blog post for my 4 followers! Haha!
You see, I have been a fan of many kinds of music since all my life as well as a fan of t-shirts with band logos,graphics etc... since I am half owner of a batik company that makes t shirts I decided to revisit some of my favorite bands and make a t-shirt or two. The bands I chose were The Misfits/Samhain and Soul Side. I recently obtained permission from Kevin of 7 seconds to make a VERY SMALL number of 7 Seconds shirts(no, they will not be for sale unless I can come to a fair deal with the band and keep the costs down).
Last but not least was a second homage to Samhain. This shirt was two sided like the other shirt but, it was dedicated to Samhain. The front was a reproduction of the "November Coming Fire" record that did not come out to my liking so, I did not photograph it. The back was a nice batik version of Glen and Co. drenched in red stuff making them super scary! Boo! I took the image from the great Samhain record "Initium". The back came out pretty good I thought. Our good friend Wende bought it for her good friend Brad. So it resides in Salt Lake City,Ut.
Since the making of these few "Punk/H.C." shirts we have thought about making batiks of other Metal,HC/punk bands but nothing other the 7 Seconds batik is in the immediate future.
You see, I have been a fan of many kinds of music since all my life as well as a fan of t-shirts with band logos,graphics etc... since I am half owner of a batik company that makes t shirts I decided to revisit some of my favorite bands and make a t-shirt or two. The bands I chose were The Misfits/Samhain and Soul Side. I recently obtained permission from Kevin of 7 seconds to make a VERY SMALL number of 7 Seconds shirts(no, they will not be for sale unless I can come to a fair deal with the band and keep the costs down).
Bobby Sullivan of Soul Side, 7 League Boots and many other musical projects showing off his Mountain Air Batik "Soul Side Sun" batik one of five made.
Detail of the sun logo the font was used on the Bass e.p. the sun was also used on the same e.p. as well as one of their tour shirts. I revised it a little, dyed the shirts,drew/waxed the logo then re dyed the shirt. I am honored to have Mr. Sullivan wearing something that I made. Thanks Bobby
This Misfits,Samhain combo batik was done over a year ago and could quite possibly be the first and only one of it's kind. I get so many compliments on this shirt from H.C. kids, old timers to hippies some even singing Misfits words to me! The Misfits bridge the gap between all genres! Hahaha!
So, this one shirt is mine and I don't have plans on reproducing it(We did make a single Samhain logo shirt for our friend Eric in Wi).
Since the making of these few "Punk/H.C." shirts we have thought about making batiks of other Metal,HC/punk bands but nothing other the 7 Seconds batik is in the immediate future.
