Notable Batik Collector

• Nelson Mandela wears a batik shirt on formal occasions, the South Africans call it a Madiba shirt.
• The late mother of United States president Barack Obama, Ann Dunham was an avid collector of Batik. In 2009, an exhibition of Dunham's textile batik art collection (A Lady Found a Culture in its Cloth: Barack Obama's Mother and Indonesian Batiks) toured six museums in the United States, finishing the tour at the Textile Museum.
• Santosa Doellah, The Indonesian Museum of Records has recognized him as having the world’s largest collector of ancient Chinese-influenced Indonesian batik textiles. In total his collection are about 10,000 batik pieces.