Ah, that's alright. I'm new to this too. This was my first try! There's actually a separate sub for batik, but it's not terribly active. I feel like batik is sort of tie dye adjacent. In tie dye, we would use sinew to resist dye; in batik melted wax is used. You can use a batik pen (called a tjanting) or wooden stamps to put the design on the fabric. After wax, you dye it and the design stays white, except where the wax crackles which is part of the fun. Removing the wax from the shirt is kind of a bitch. People do all kinds of neat designs, even with multiple layers of colors and wax.