Leaf Green Flowers, Hand Dyed Batik, 100% Cotton Night Gown - NG035

Leaf Green Flowers, Hand Dyed Batik, 100% Cotton Night Gown - NG035Leaf green flowers a yellow leaning green that sits closer to spring than forest. The blooms are light and fresh against the white cotton, the kind of floral that feels as easy in daylight as it does as nightwear. The colour has a gentle brightness that doesn't demand anything from the wearer. The wax outlines for each petal were drawn before the fabric met the dye. Where the green dye moved into the cloth at different rates slightly heavier where it

Blue blocks in a layered

Pink zig zag lines running across the full length of the kaftan — the pattern moves in sharp

It's a quiet pattern — the kind that reads as texture before it reads as colour

and the palm shapes work across the cloth in a design that reads as naturally tropical without trying to be

dense and confident

Both outcomes are visible

and the circles repeat across the cloth with the slight irregularity that comes from a hand applying wax rather than a stamp

The variation in edge quality from block to block is the record of a person working

repeated by hand for the full circumference of the hem

An older piece in the collection

Where the dye pooled slightly at the wax edges

the colour is most concentrated