At the seaside Barahom community, in the southern Thai province of Pattani, artisans using a wax resist technique, print fabric using hand-carved blocks, then dye the cloth in rich colors. They’re one of only a handful of people in southern Thailand who continue to make batik the old way. Barahom is a settlement that goes back to the middle of the Ayutthaya period when Pattani was once an important sea trading port on the Malay Peninsula.
These large-sized, medium-weight napkins, hand-stamped and dyed, come in sets of 4.
