Blue Flowers, Hand Dyed Batik, 100% Cotton Night Gown - NG036

Blue Flowers, Hand Dyed Batik, 100% Cotton Night Gown - NG036Blue flowers in a looser, more spread arrangement than some of the other florals the blooms have more white ground between them, giving the design an open, uncluttered feel. The blue is a clear, medium tone that reads confidently without heaviness. An older piece in the collection, and the hand that drew the wax outlines shows in the slightly freer quality of each petal. The flowers don't repeat with the precision of a newer design they drift and turn

finished character

Where the blocks meet the undyed ground

hand-dyed in the wax-resist tradition for soft

In places where the wax was applied thicker

The uniformity of the dot pattern across the whole night gown reflects the patience of the hand that made it — thousands of individual bindings

Rich purple cotton flows with hand-set batik waves

confident one

Purple fading into black — deep at both ends and with a middle section where the two tones meet and blend into something between them

and it's most visible on the simpler designs like this one

and that slight variation from oval to oval — some a fraction richer

graphic and clean

the corners carry the small variations that come from a freehand-drawn line — consistent enough to hold the pattern