Salt Air Batiks by Riley Blake Designs

Salt Air captures that perfect summer moment when your toes sink into the sand, your shoulders relax, and the tide reminds you to slow down and enjoy the day. Designed by Fran Gulick of Cotton and Joy for Riley Blake Designs, the collection was inspired by Gulick's connection to the ocean and combines beautiful watery blues and teals with warm, sandy neutrals. Riley Blake identifies Salt Air as part of its batik program and Fran Gulick as its designer.

The collection's understated coastal feeling makes it equally beautiful for beach-inspired projects, modern quilts, summer sewing, and year-round home décor.

Coastal Batiks in Blues, Teals & Sandy Neutrals

Salt Air moves beautifully from pale aqua and sea-glass shades into rich ocean blues, sophisticated teals, and warm neutrals. Look for colorways including Adriatic Mist, Seafoam Splash, Aqua Dream, Aquamarine, Duck Egg, Smoky Teal, Blue Calm, Buttermilk, Coastal Cabana, Calypso, Dijon, and Midnight.

This range of light, medium, and dark values makes blue and teal batik fabric especially versatile for quilts where you want contrast while maintaining a peaceful, cohesive palette.

Explore our complete selection of batik fabric for even more hand-dyed colors and designs.

Salt Air Precuts

Start sewing sooner with coordinating Salt Air precuts, including a 40-piece Rolie Polie, 42-piece 5-Inch Stacker, 42-piece 10-Inch Stacker, and 21-piece Fat Quarter Bundle.

Whether you call them Rolie Polies or jelly rolls, charm packs or 5-inch squares, layer cakes or 10-inch squares, these convenient precuts make it easy to enjoy Salt Air's coordinated coastal palette without selecting every fabric individually.

Find the perfect project in our precut friendly quilt patterns.

Six Extra-Wide Salt Air Batik Backings

One of the most distinctive features of Salt Air is its exceptional selection of six coordinating 116"/117" wide backing fabrics. Riley Blake's Salt Air wide backs are considerably wider than traditional quilting cotton and even wider than the familiar 108-inch wide backing, helping eliminate the need to piece multiple lengths of fabric for many quilt backs.

The six wide backs include Duck Egg, Dijon, two Blue Calm designs, Adriatic Mist, and Midnight, providing options from light and airy to rich and dramatic.

Browse more wide backing fabric for beautiful ways to finish your quilt.

Hand-Dyed Batik Fabric Made in Indonesia

Salt Air belongs to the Batiks by Riley Blake Designs program. Riley Blake states that its batiks are ethically sourced and hand-dyed through relationships with batik artisans in Indonesia, including Tjap designers and makers, color experts, and stamp artisans. Because of the handcrafted process, individual pieces of batik fabric can naturally vary.

Salt Air's standard quilting cotton is 100% cotton and approximately 43/44 inches wide.

What Can You Make with Salt Air Fabric?

Use Salt Air to create coastal quilts, beach-inspired quilts, summer quilts, modern quilts, table runners, pillows, wall hangings, bags, and home décor.

What makes the collection particularly versatile is that it creates a coastal feeling through color and texture rather than relying on obvious novelty motifs. The watery blues, teals, aquas, and sandy neutrals can evoke ocean, sea glass, sky, foam, and sand while remaining sophisticated enough for year-round projects.

FAQs

What is Salt Air fabric?

Salt Air is a coastal-inspired batik fabric collection from Riley Blake Designs, designed by Fran Gulick of Cotton and Joy. It features 21 standard-width batik fabrics in a soothing palette inspired by ocean water, sea foam, and sand.

Who designed Salt Air fabric?

Fran Gulick of Cotton and Joy designed Salt Air for Riley Blake Designs. Riley Blake identifies Gulick as the designer throughout the Salt Air collection.

Is Salt Air batik fabric?

Yes. Salt Air is part of the Batiks by Riley Blake Designs collection and is made from 100% cotton.

Where are Riley Blake batiks made?

Riley Blake states that its hand-dyed batiks are developed through relationships with batik artisans in Indonesia.

Are Riley Blake batiks ethically sourced?

Yes. Riley Blake Designs describes its batik collections as ethically sourced and produced through relationships with Indonesian batik artisans.

What colors are in Salt Air fabric?

Salt Air features foamy blues, soft teals, aquas, and sandy neutrals, including Adriatic Mist, Seafoam Splash, Aqua Dream, Aquamarine, Duck Egg, Smoky Teal, Blue Calm, Buttermilk, Coastal Cabana, Calypso, Dijon, and Midnight.

What Salt Air precuts are available?

Salt Air includes a 40-piece Rolie Polie, 42-piece 5-Inch Stacker, 42-piece 10-Inch Stacker, and 21-piece Fat Quarter Bundle.

Does Salt Air have wide backing fabric?

Yes. Salt Air has an unusually extensive selection of six coordinating 116/117-inch wide batik backings.

How wide is Salt Air wide backing fabric?

Salt Air wide backs measure approximately 116/117 inches wide, making them even wider than standard 108-inch quilt backing fabric. Riley Blake states that the additional width is intended to accommodate most quilt backs.

Is Salt Air fabric 100% cotton?

Yes. Riley Blake lists Salt Air as 100% cotton. The standard batiks are approximately 43/44 inches wide.

Is Salt Air only for coastal quilts?

No. The colors are inspired by the coast, but Salt Air also works beautifully for modern quilts, summer quilts, table runners, bags, pillows, and year-round home décor.

What can I make with Salt Air Batiks?

Salt Air is well suited to coastal quilts, beach quilts, modern quilts, summer quilts, table runners, wall hangings, pillows, bags, and home décor. The collection's Rolie Polie, Stackers, and Fat Quarter Bundle also work especially well with precut-friendly patterns.

Bring the Beauty of the Coast to Your Next Quilt

Surround yourself with foamy blues, dreamy aquas, soft teals, and sandy neutrals with Salt Air Batiks by Riley Blake Designs. Shop Salt Air fabric by the yard, coordinating precuts, Fat Quarter Bundles, and extra-wide 116/117-inch batik backings, then discover more batik fabric, wide backing fabric, and precut-friendly quilt patterns for your next project.