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A trusted source of batik, indigo and ikat fabric for 40 years.
Hello, and welcome to Textile Traders. For the past 40 years we've been travelling to South East Asia to source beautiful fabrics, jewellery and batik tools from small producers and artisans.
We're proud to be a small family business, working with other small businesses in Indonesia and Thailand to ensure everything we sell is of the highest quality and sourced as ethically as possible.
An eclectic UK fabric shop
Whether you're looking for unusual quilting fabric or adding to your dressmaking stash, you'll find everything you need in our online fabric shop.
We stock a variety of unique fabrics, including handwoven hemp, Indonesian ikat, indigo cotton and handmade batik, all hand sourced by us directly from weavers and small businesses in South East Asia.
Explore our collection of unusual fabrics
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Hemp Fabric
Sustainable hemp cloth, woven in Northern Thailand and available in a rainbow of colours.
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Dyed with Indigo
Beautiful indigo textiles from Northern Thailand, including hill tribe batik and Japanese Indigo.
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Modern Batik Fabric
Handmade batik fabric from Java, from a small producer we've been working with for decades.
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Handwoven Ikat Fabric
Stunning ikat fabric from Bali, hand woven in a range of colours and designs.
Specialist batik supplies, sourced for you.
Though we offer a wide range of beautiful south east Asian textiles from Thailand and Indonesia, our first love is batik fabric. Over the years we have run UK batik workshops and batik tours in Asia whilst also working hard to source suppliers for high quality batik tools and equipment to bring batik to the UK.
In our online shop you will find batik kits, copper cantings, primissima fabric for batik, cold water batik dye, batik wax and more. Whether you're a beginner looking to learn batik or a seasoned batik artist, our shop has everything you need.
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Indian Woodblocks
Handcarved wooden printing blocks from Rajasthan, India. Ideal for block printing fabric with fabric paint or batik wax.
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Wax Pellets
Shop our pre-blended batik wax mix, or make your own blend with our beeswax and paraffin wax pellets.
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Batik Cantings
High quality copper tjantings (batik wax pens), handmade in Java by expert toolmakers, with recycled teak handles.
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Procion Dyes
We stock a wide range of cold water dyes for batik. Available in three different sizes, and a full spectrum of colours.
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Our UK Textile Shows
See our upcoming showsYou'll find Sean manning the stall at many UK textiles events throughout the year. He helps to organise the wonderful World Textile Day events, and is always happy to help!
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Our suppliers
Learn more about our suppliersFair trade has always been an important part of our business, and we always do our best to source our products directly from makers and small businesses in Thailand and Indonesia.
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Our Bishop's Castle shop
See shop open daysThough they're trying their best to retire, Jim and Di are still occasionally opening the shop in Bishop's Castle. You can find details of upcoming open days on our events page.
