China Seas Fabric: Ceylon Batik - Custom Pink on White Suncloth (OUTDOOR)

One does not simply 'hang' Ceylon Batik; one survives it. It is a pattern born of the humid, rhythmic clacking of a loom in a place where the air is thick enough to chew. It has the organized chaos of a Victorian zoologist’s field notes—the kind written while hiding from a rogue elephant in the high brush of Kandy.

Suncloth is a synthetic fabric designed for more rugged use. While it is suitable for outdoors, please note that continuous exposure to sun and/or chlorinated water will cause fading.

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.

To encounter this pink is to understand why the wives of tea planters went slightly mad by monsoon season. It is the color of the inside of a conch shell held to the ear by someone who has given up pretending they will ever return to Surrey. Not coral—coral tries too hard. Not blush—blush apologizes. This is the pink of a gin sunrise on a veranda where someone is about to say something unforgivable about the District Commissioner's orchid collection. It will fade, yes—all things worth loving do—but it will fade like a love letter left too long in a pocket, which is to say: gracefully, and with evidence of having been read.