Pink Flowers, Hand Dyed Batik, 100% Cotton Night Gown - NG031

Pink Flowers, Hand Dyed Batik, 100% Cotton Night Gown - NG031Pink flowers on white cotton blush and open, the blooms are spaced generously across the cloth and the pink is soft enough to feel gentle without being washed out. A floral night gown that's easy to wake up in. The petals were outlined in wax before the fabric was dyed, each one a single continuous stroke that determines the flower's character. No two flowers in this pattern are drawn from exactly the same wrist movement, and the small differences

the geometry lifting the warmth of the colour

The hand-dyeing gives it a gentle variation across the cloth

Pink oval shapes floating across white cotton — softer than circles

What makes this piece contemporary is simply the cut and the cotton

and that distinction is everything

Yellow in batik responds to the texture of the cotton more visibly than darker colours do

The circle boundaries are wax lines drawn before the dye went on

which adds a folk-art quality to what would otherwise be a solid-colour piece

Each diamond was outlined in wax before the dye went on

The variation in tone across the kaftan is slight but present — a deepening here

Blue flowers across white cotton — the blue is a medium

Warm yellow with a triangle border at the hem — the yellow body is bright and open