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Hands screen-printing a shirt by hand at the Blumbang workshop in Klaten
Blumbang · Jeto, Klaten · Java

You'll know whose hands made this.

We're a screen-printing workshop in Klaten. We make shirts by hand — and we bring you the work of the makers around us: batik, stone, weaving. Either way, you'll know exactly who made yours.

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Living Garment — a different code

Our shirts carry a code too. But theirs doesn't point back to a maker — it points forward, to wherever you take it.

Hundreds of pieces are already out in the world, carried to cities across the map — from Klaten to Seychelles and Tokyo. Every dot is one of them. Watch it move.

Lighting the map…
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Wax heated over a small stove for batik
The tip of the canting touching the cloth
A line of wax growing slowly across the cloth
✦  What the price is really for

Eleven days. One pair of hands. No machine touched it.

We don't draw batik — our neighbors do. A hand-drawn batik tulis like this sells for €180–250 in a European boutique. Through us it costs a fraction of that — and on the maker's page you'll see exactly how much reaches the woman who drew it, line by line. We don't hide that number. We built the company around it.

"She finishes about four pieces a month."
That's not a marketing tactic. That's how long it takes.
A maker holding her phone, a small smile
✦  After you buy

Once it's yours, you can talk to her directly.

Buy a piece and we hand you the maker's own number. Want another — or something made only for you? Go straight to her. No middleman after that.

Most shops would never hand that over. That's exactly why we do — you'll find that button on every maker's page.

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✦  Why us, not a marketplace

We're not curators.
We're neighbors.

Blumbang is a screen-printing studio in Jeto, Klaten. The shirts, we make ourselves — our printer has been at it since 1998. Everything else comes from people who live minutes from us: the women who draw the batik, the family that carves the stone.

We didn't discover anyone. We grew up beside them — and we pay them what the work is actually worth.

Made slowly. Felt deeply.
The Blumbang team at the workshop in Jeto, Klaten