Not to get too technical here, but technically, only the mottles are batiks. The watercolors are hand-dyes. On Hoffman's site, you can tell the difference by looking at the name -- if it says hand-paint, it's a batik. Of course, all batiks are also hand-dyes, but not all hand-dyes are batiks.
We're just about to unpack our big shipment of mottles and other new Hoffman batiks and hand-dyes today. Can't wait to see them! The cool thing about ordering in May and not getting them till October is that it's like opening a big Christmas present. The other side though is that it's a lot of work to get all those fabrics up on the website. :mrgreen: