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Trusted for over 40 years

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Hand-sourced textiles from around the world for sewists, makers, quilters and crafters.

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Batik Kit with Canting, Batik Wax, Fabric and Procion Dyes.

Learn batik at home

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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    Batik kits

    Everything you need to learn batik at home.

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    Batik cantings

    Copper cantings for applying batik wax.

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    Primissima

    High thread count cotton from Java.

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    Batik dyes

    Cold water procion dyes in a range of colours.
Paisley Woodblock Stamp Set for Making Indian Blockprint Fabric, Batik and Clay Stamping.

Set of Wood Blocks for Batik

£8.95

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Indian wood blocks

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

A trusted source of Asian textiles since 1984.

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.

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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.

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Handmade silver jewellery

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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 
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    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