Karina Rima Melati examines the development of the batik buketan (bouquet) motif and how the creativity and labor of batik workers in Pekalongan of the North Coastal region in Central Java, Indonesia, helped contest, produce and reproduce what has now come to be known as an iconic batik style of that area.  Melati draws from previous studies of batik in different contexts, the marginality of batik labor, the growing trend of batik, batik and the postcolonial theoretical framework, and batik from a global perspective.