Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-17
Batik Kopi Turns Coffee Husks Into Batik Dye
A Yogyakarta batik project transforms discarded coffee husks into natural dye for handmade batik cloth and creative products.
Why it surfacedThe site documents a four-stage process, from collecting coffee-husk waste and extracting brown dye to canting-and-wax batik work and finishing. It also connects the material experiment to 45+ women batik makers, eight partner villages, and a distinctly local meeting of coffee culture, craft, and waste reduction.
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Monica’s Calendar of Flowers
August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.