Solo, Indonesia – Gunawan Setiawan is the fourth generation of batik makers and sellers in his family, and hails from the historic royal city of Surakarta, or Solo, in Central Java which is also known ...

Windhoek — Tom Kenesi runs a design shop specialising in batik designs, and produces beautiful fabrics for the tourism market on the outskirts of Windhoek. Kenesi is now imparting this eastern art to ...

Celebrated by designers, tastemakers, and pattern-lovers for centuries, batik is both a type of fabric and an ancient dyeing technique with a long and complicated history. Often grouped with other ...