On each of his three visits to Indonesia, the Thai monarch King Chulalongkorn returned home to Siam with pieces of handmade batik. Preserved by the Bureau of the Royal Household at the Grand palace since 1910, the year the king passed away, the collection totals over 300 pieces and today provides key documentation of the batik made in West and Central Java during the second half of the 19th century, with many rare and beautiful pieces from famous ateliers of the day. This exquisite collection was presented to the public for the first time at the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles in Bangkok in November 2018.