Caribelle Batik Wall Hanging (Small)
Born hereOLD ROAD TOWN (ROMNEY MANOR), ST. KITTS

Caribelle Batik Wall Hanging (Small)

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Care for it

About 40cm by 60cm, sea island cotton on a wooden rod, hangs from one nail. Keep out of long direct sun to hold the dye. Each panel is signed on a tag at the back by the woman who waxed it.

The details
Size
18
Cadence
year-round
From the producer
Caribelle Batik

Caribelle Batik

OLD ROAD TOWN (ROMNEY MANOR), ST. KITTS

Hand-made batik at Romney Manor since 1975. Founder Maurice Widdowson received a Medal of Honour from the SKN government for heritage and conservation.

Carib for the region. Belle for beautiful. It just seemed right.
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Romney Manor

St. Kitts · Saint Thomas Middle Island

Romney Manor sits above Old Road on the west of St Kitts, next to Wingfield Estate. The house began as the Red House, built in 1625 by Samuel Jefferson II, an ancestor of the American president Thomas Jefferson. In 1834 the estate freed the people it had enslaved, the first on...

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