Green, Hand Dyed Batik Tie-up, 100% Cotton Kaftan - K072

Green, Hand Dyed Batik Tie-up, 100% Cotton Kaftan - K072A full, even green across the cotton deeper and more saturated than leaf green, the kind that reads as a proper colour rather than a shade. The hand dyeing gives it a life that solid dyed cloth from a factory simply doesn't have. When the cotton absorbed the dye, it didn't do so uniformly it responded to the weave, the moisture, the temperature of the workshop that day. All of that is in the cloth now, invisible as a process but visible as character.

That variation is the whole point

and they're what stop the border from reading as mechanical

As nightwear it's a piece that makes a quiet statement without trying to

The rhythm is close but not mechanical

and it's what keeps the pattern from feeling mechanical

A string at the waist allows you to choose the fit you desire

and the dotted pattern spreads across the cloth in a way that feels consistent from a distance and handmade up close

The gradient is long and slow

Black cotton with a large red flower embroidery — this version has a bigger

holding the ground while the dye soaked everything around it

Where it loosened slightly

and on the white cotton ground it has the kind of warmth that works particularly well by lamplight