Originally Posted by AndiR

A quilting teacher I had once said something that changed the way I looked at fabric - she said "you paid for both sides of the fabric, that means you can use whichever side works best!"

The side with the gold is probably considered the 'right' side, but I've used the back side of one like that once when I really didn't want the metallic look. On batiks it's often hard to tell right from wrong anyway.