Dove is the soft gray colorway of Galaxy, one of the signature prints in 4th and Main Favorites from Scott Flanagan of 4th & Main Designs for Banyan Batiks. It's a 100% cotton batik, so the swirling design has the layered, hand-dyed look batik fans love, with small variations from piece to piece.
Gray is one of the most useful colors to keep in a batik stash. A soft gray like Dove can ease the jump from a vanilla background to black or deep blue prints, or act as a calm background of its own in a modern quilt. In scrappy quilts, it blends in without adding a competing color.
Try Dove as sashing between bolder blocks, as the background for a two-color quilt, or as the main fabric in a table runner or pillow where you want texture without much contrast. It pairs easily with the grays, blues, and blacks in the rest of the collection, and it gives the Compass Star prints a quiet partner when you want those designs to stand out.
