I can remember maybe three or four fabrics that did that for me.
They were not batiks.
One was a blue - I had ten yards of it to begin with - and it had shrunk to about nine yards when I returned it. The store people were not particularly pleasant about it.
One was a turquoise - it wasn't quite "done" when I decided to use it, but the front was dark enough so it wouldn't afflict it.
One was an orange -