A million years ago, when my son was a teen, he liked to wear camouflage clothing. Someone gave him a pair they no longer wanted, he never wore them and somehow they wound up in my closet under a pile of stuff. I never paid any attention to them,
When I started quilting, about 7 or 8 years ago, I came across the pants and realized they were made out of batik, a mottled grey/black/whitish color. I wore them into a quilt store and skulked around furtively to see if anyone could see me (remember they were camo) but, alas, I wasn't invisible. I was disappointed, I had hoped I could go undetected and abscond with all the quilt material I want and no one would know. : =95) So much for wearing camouflaged batik pants, maybe I need to make a camo batik shirt and try again.
As to what goes "with" batiks? Usually more batiks. There are quite a few that read as solids, maybe with just a touch of variation in color. I tried using just a plain black regular cotton to set off some batik log cabins, but I found the difference in "feel" to be distracting. There are some really nice batik solids out there.
Denise