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Bestselling fabric by the metre

Our most popular fabrics for dressmaking, quilting and crafts, handmade and sourced directly from the people who make them where possible. From Indian block print fabric to batik fabric hand printed in Indonesia, discover the fabrics our customers love.

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Popular gifts

Gifts with a unique origin story, for the well-travelled or the friend who loves to make. From indigo dye kits to fat quarter sets, handwoven scarves to hill tribe silver jewellery, these are gifts you won't find on the high street.

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Tjanting Tool - Canting for Batik - 01 Fine Spout - Textile Traders

Learn batik at home

Though we offer a wide range of beautiful south east Asian textiles, our first love is batik fabric. We are proud to be a Batik Guild recommended supplier, supplying high quality batik tools and supplies to some of the UK's leading batikers. 

In our online shop you will find everything you need to learn batik at home, including a range of different batik kits as well as the separate batik supplies such as copper cantings, batik wax, Indian woodblocks and procion dyes.

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A trusted source of Asian textiles since 1984

  • img link Jim and Diane Gaffney, UK Batik Experts with the Textile Traders team.

    Hello, and welcome to Textile Traders

    For the past 40 plus 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.

    Read our full story 
  • img link Antique Textiles from Indonesia at our World Textile Day event.

    A specialist 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.

    Shop our fabrics now 
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    Our UK textile events

    You'll find the Textile Traders stall at many UK textiles events throughout the year. We help to organise the wonderful World Textile Day events and markets, but we pop up all over the country!

    See our upcoming shows 
  • img link A Hill Tribe woman in Thailand weaving handwoven hemp fabric on a loom.

    Our suppliers

    Trading fairly 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.

    Learn more about our suppliers 
  • img link Jim and Diane Gaffney in front of the Textile Traders Shop in Bishop's Castle

    Our Bishop's Castle shop

    Though our online fabric shop is based out of Cornwall, we still open our Bishop's Castle shop throughout the summer months, and by appointment the rest of the year.

    See shop open days