Pink Dotted, Hand Dyed Batik, 100% Cotton Kaftan - K003

Pink Dotted, Hand Dyed Batik, 100% Cotton Kaftan - K003Soft pink scattered across white cotton, each dot sitting where the wax once was. The colour has a gentleness to it the kind that doesn't announce itself but stays with you. In batik, the dots are not printed but protected. Wax is placed over each one so the dye flows around them, leaving the cotton underneath untouched. The slight irregularity in their spacing is the hand of the person who made it.

The layering means the design has more visual complexity than its palette suggests — look closely and you'll find more than two colours in any given section of cloth

Blue flowers on white in a looser

Cool blue with bold palm shapes — the blue ground is deep and even

and it moves into the black with a gradation that has texture and depth rather than a clean line

Where each loop closed

The contrast between the solid blue and the patterned border is what makes it work

Yellow bandhani has an energy to it that the deeper-coloured bandhani pieces don't — the lightness of the colour and the fine dot pattern together give the cloth a quality that catches light rather than absorbing it

and the leaf forms give it a grounded

Coral pink stripes that lean warm

which means each curve carries the pressure and rhythm of the person who made it

repeating angles that give the cloth a directional energy without restlessness

sitting between pink and orange without fully committing to either