Batik Nyonyas: Three Generations of Art and Entrepreneurship — Nyonya Oeij Soen King, Nyonya Oeij Kok Sing, Jane Hendromartono Author_Brian Priambodo where she researches and creates

where she researches and creates history-related content for exhibitions

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shortlisted for Best Literary Work at the Singapore Book Awards

she reveals her connection to the case of an Englishwoman charged with murder in the Kuala Lumpur courts - a tragedy drawn from fact

“I read the book with profit and interest

Batik Nyonyas: Three Generations of Art and Entrepreneurship — Nyonya Oeij Soen King, Nyonya Oeij Kok Sing, Jane Hendromartono Author_Brian Priambodo where she researches and createsDescription About the Authors Family, art, and entrepreneurship converge in the story of three visionary Peranakan women from Indonesia Nyonya Oeij Soen King, her daughter in law Nyonya Oeij Kok Sing, and her granddaughter Jane Hendromartono. From the 1890s to the 1980s, they produced impressive batiks in the renowned batik centre of Pekalongan on Javas north coast. Their lives and works reveal how each woman became a batik master in her own right,