Batik - Batik Collectors

Batik Collectors

  • Santosa Doellah has been recognised by The Indonesian Museum of Records as having the world’s largest collection of ancient Chinese-influenced Indonesian batik textiles. In total his collection consists of approximately 10,000 Batik pieces.
  • The late mother of United States president Barack Obama, Ann Dunham was an avid collector of Batik. In 2009, an exhibition of Dunham's textile batik art collection (A Lady Found a Culture in its Cloth: Barack Obama's Mother and Indonesian Batiks) toured six museums in the United States, finishing the tour at the Textile Museum.
  • Nelson Mandela wears a batik shirt on formal occasions, the South Africans call it a Madiba shirt.

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