Ten Squares - 10-inch squares precut bundle (layer cake)
Fabric Line: Artisan Batiks: Lilly Bella
Description: Floral and botanical batik prints in shades of purple and green
Designer: Lunn Studios
Manufacturer: Robert Kaufman

This lovely bundle of floral batiks by Lunn Studios for Robert Kaufman is a gorgeous mix of purple and green, with shades of lavender, wine red, and black for accents. The motifs include flowers, leaves, and botanical paisleys, with some more abstract fabrics included as well. These fabrics are all hand dyed in Indonesia and are each stunning works of batik art. The purple and green colors are reminiscent of a vineyard when the grapes are ready to pick and would make a gorgeous quilt for a wine connoisseur.

What's included:
One bundle of 42 squares, each 10 by 10 inches. Please note, as there are 22 fabrics in the line, most will be duplicated in the bundle.

As always, I double wrap your package to help protect against weather damage in transit. I ship super fast: in most cases, I will get your fabric in the mail to you within 24 hours.
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About Artisan Batiks: These one-of-a-kind Artisan Batiks are produced on the island of Java in Indonesia by skilled dye masters.

Each yard of these sumptuous fabrics is unique. The fabric is hand-stamped and then hand-painted multiple times, with many different pairs of hands working on every yard. Most of the work is done outside, so the weather greatly influences the results. Due to this specialized hand-process, there is a consistency to color and pattern, while maintaining subtle color variations that are so important to this traditional technique. Click here to view the collection.

Please Note: There are always slight variations from bolt to bolt and color to color that result from the interaction of the hand processes with nature. This is the beauty of batik.
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About the designers: Renowned fiber artists Debra Lunn & Michael Mrowka (pronounced ma-ROOF-ka) of Lunn Studios proudly bring their stunning and acclaimed hand-dyed batiks to Robert Kaufman Company.

Quiltmakers, hand dyers and surface designers, the two have been producing fabrics for nearly 40 years.

Debra Lunn has been making quilts since 1963. While in graduate school in textile design in 1976 at the University of Minnesota, she began hand-dyeing fabrics for use in her own quilts.

Debra's quilt, Counterpoint, was the first and only piece in Quilt National '79 (the first exhibition) that was made of hand-dyed fabrics. Debra's personal art quilts which feature hand-dyed fabrics that are made at Lunn Fabrics have continued to be included in national and international juried and invitational exhibitions.

In 1988, Debra started hand-dyeing fabrics in gradations to sell to other quiltmakers.

In 1991, Debra met Michael Mrowka, and they joined together in the endeavor of Lunn Fabrics (and also as personal mates). Working together, Lunn Fabrics expanded to produce fabrics that are hand-dyed, hand-painted, airbrushed, hand-stamped, and screenprinted.

Michael, a sculptor, painter and a journeyman printer of 20 years (on paper), has streamlined production and invented new techniques and patterns.

In 1994, Debra and Michael began designing fabric for Robert Kaufman Company, which continued until 1998. They created innovative lines of fabric for commercial production, which include Pointillist Palette, Natural Creations, Vibrations, Prima Materia, Photo Real Clouds, DYE IT! and Precious Metals.

Debra and Michael are thrilled to have returned to Robert Kaufman to run the batik division, called Artisan Batiks.

Their media coverage in the industry includes acknowledgement and acclaim from a wide range of fiber art publications, including several features in Surface Design Journal and ArtFocus. Copies of these articles are available from the Robert Kaufman Marketing Department upon request for further background information.