Black with Big Red Flower Design, Embroidered, 100% Cotton Night Gown - NGE502

Black with Big Red Flower Design, Embroidered, 100% Cotton Night Gown - NGE502Black cotton with a large red flower embroidery this version has a bigger, bolder floral motif than NGE501, the blooms more prominent and the red sitting with more visual weight against the black ground. It's the same combination of colours and craft, turned up slightly. The larger flower scale means each petal covers more ground and the stitching is more visible you can follow the thread's path across the bloom in a way that smaller embroidery

The petal shapes were drawn in wax one by one

It's not a flaw

there's a gentle gradation that only happens when dye and wax interact on a living cloth

No two pieces dry the same way

Each dot was individually pinched and tied by hand before the fabric went into the dye

the points are crisp

Peach requires careful calibration in hand-dyeing — the balance between red and yellow in the dye bath determines whether it comes out right

No two flowers in this pattern are drawn from exactly the same wrist movement

This is the most colour-complex of the shaded night gowns

and the two elements together give the night gown a character that plain pieces don't have

lighter blue toward the petals

The result is a diamond pattern that has more going on than its simple geometry suggests