Worked entirely by hand across its full surface, rows of kantha running stitch bind two layers together in the ancient tradition of the craft - each line placed by a single artisan, each pass of thread unrepeatable. The front is a single length of upcycled underprint cotton - its ground a warm golden-ochre and soft olive-green, across which large-scale scrolling lilac botanical forms move freely: flowing acanthus leaves in dark forest green, clusters of lilac-purple blooms like hydrangea seen through morning light, teal-blue flower heads and curling vine stems weaving across the cloth in layer upon layer of woodblock print. The colours are soft, slightly faded, translucent - the accumulated memory of countless printings laid down before it on the tables of Jaipur. The overall effect is of a sunlit garden seen through a soft lens - lush, layered, and entirely one of a kind. The edge is finished with a vivid bright green kantha blanket stitch, the maker's mark worked by hand along every side.
The reverse is Moss - a rich forest lime green - in a 45% cotton / 55% linen blend, its smooth face a quiet counterpoint to the painterly complexity of the front. The kantha stitch clearing showing the marks of the hand that made it.
Ethically handcrafted in India. Designed in Aotearoa. Dry clean only.
