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Batik shopping in Kelantan, Malaysia (Part 3)

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Hi all! So my batik fabric hunting in Kelantan did not stop with Kartika Kiara Batik. After that, we went to Wisma Songket Hjh Cik Bidah bt Cik Yin (Cik Bidah for short)…. which turned out to be my favourite of all!

Front of the shop.

They have a lot of block-printed batik fabrics. Well actually, when I think carefully about it, I would say all of the batik fabrics in the shop are block-printed. I found some hand-painted fabrics, but those are already made into finished products.

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Batik shopping in Kelantan, Malaysia (Part 1)

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For the Chinese New Year break, I came back to my family’s village in Kelantan with one important mission in mind: I wanted to explore batik shops there 😛 . I don’t know why, but I never knew about the existence of batik manufacturers in Kelantan before hahaha. Previously, I often thought of batik arts as being a specialty of Terengganu (another state in Malaysia). It was through one of my Instagram searches that I found out about batiks in Kelantan.

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