China Seas Fabric: Bunga Print - Custom China Blue on White Cotton Sateen

An iconic, tribal batik-style print with flowers and grasses. 

This is on a cotton sateen fabric that is suitable for lighter uses like duvet covers and pillow shams.   If you are planning a larger project, additional yardage from this lot may be available.

Please note that colors may not represent accurately in photo. Additional photo(s) provided to show scale, not colorway. All sales are final, and we do not send cuttings for approval.

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The same thousand-year-old Javanese flower, but this time China Seas did something quietly radical: they printed it in China blue on white. Which means this batik pattern is now speaking the visual language of Delft, of Kangxi export porcelain, of every blue-and-white plate that ever crossed an ocean in the hold of a merchant ship. That’s not an accident — the name is China Seas, and the color is China blue, and the entire history of the maritime textile trade is sitting right there in the product listing if you know where to look. The batik crackle lines are still visible, so the Javanese origin is never erased, just translated — the way a song changes when you sing it in a different language but keep the melody. This is the version for people who want the maximalism of Bunga without the volume of the black ground, and it is not quieter so much as it is confident in a different register.

Seven yards at outlet price, 54” wide with a 35” repeat on a soft cotton sateen ground that elevates everything printed on it. Seven yards is a pair of pillows and a chair, or one spectacular Roman shade in a powder room where guests will stand too long pretending to wash their hands. Blue and white has been selling for six hundred years. It is not going to stop now.. 

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