Hello, I want to be a salesman here. I'm trying to offer BATIK. What do you think of this product? Thank you.

Is that commercial stuff ? Ebay is your best bet if it is.

I love Batik but usually the african art ones. Ebay is a good place to sell it as often from abroad to the Uk the postage costs more than the actual item for sale and you may reach more people nearer to home.

I don't think there's an enormous demand outside student hippy shops - it's the sort of thing people bring back from holidays but don't buy much if they haven't been to the place it was made.

I have quite a lot of framed and mounted batiks I've picked up in India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mozambique, Swaziland but very few I've bought in the UK and then mostly from second hand places rather than new.

If you want to sell to shops, you'll probably get better prices if you can mount them on stretchers (like a canvas would be mounted) so that the customer can hang them straight on the wall - selling unmounted means most people are nervous about what it's going to cost them to get them framed or stretched or they buy them and leave them in a drawer for years.

Personally I don't like the Indonesian style very much but I'm sure it appeals to many people.

We've got a Batiks shop on Skye - been very successful since 1987!

http://www.skyebatiks.com/

I used to sew garments for them a few years ago - gorgeous!