Jayamali Batik Studio

visit this beautiful island. His unique style of designing modern, artistic and unusual designs to a very high quality fascinated the foreign guests who visited his studio. In a very short time Jayamali Batik Studio in Kandy had caught the attention of both local and foreign visitors alike. His high quality, artistic, hand-produced designs and were now being bought by people from all around the globe. As a result, since 1985 Jayamali Batik Studio has been recommended as producing “the best and the most original batiks in Kandy” by the world renowned guide book the Lonely Planet – Sri Lanka. With that recommendation he won the hearts of the foreigners who visited his work studio. He then began to build up his business and employed 10 people to work for him and continued his business very successfully. After about 3 decades of success in business, in 2005 he passed the business on to his second son Chaminda Jayakody who had been following his father’s path and was also a talented designer. Chaminda now manages and runs the business with the guidance and blessings of his father. He is sensitive to the needs of both local and foreign customers and is happy to do designs according to his customer’s needs. His specialty is the design of batiks using silk materials.