{"product_id":"cloud-study-handmade-shibori-silk-dress-with-velvet-sleeves","title":"Cloud Study · 1980s–90s Handmade Shibori Silk Dress with Velvet Sleeves","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHand-dyed shibori silk · indigo grid on storm-brown · black crushed velvet raglan sleeves · square neck · drop-waist pleated skirt · silver back zip · artisan handmade · 1980s–90s · L 111cm flat · AU 12–14 · very good condition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dye tells you how it was made. Across the silk runs a grid of soft white blooms, each one a point where the cloth was folded and bound before it went into the indigo. This is shibori, the Japanese resist technique in which the fabric itself is tied into a pattern and then released. At the yoke the colour deepens into storm-brown, as if the weather is arriving from the shoulders down. The sleeves are cut from black crushed velvet, raglan, ending below the elbow. The neck is square, the skirt drops from a low waist into flat pleats, and a silver zip runs the spine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy her make, she belongs to the 1980s or 90s, the decades when studio dyers and art-to-wear makers revived shibori in earnest and put it into dresses exactly like this one: hand-dyed cloth, a 1920s drop-waist line borrowed knowingly, velvet against silk. She carries no label, which is common for studio pieces sold at markets and galleries; the dye work is the signature. Every shibori cloth is unrepeatable by nature. The same folds and the same dye will never bloom into the same grid twice. One of one in the truest sense available to cloth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44149785329798,"sku":null,"price":175.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_3751_9994b8f6-c9e0-4675-985f-8e1ee32d84e6.jpg?v=1784766532","url":"https:\/\/checkout.caitiedid.shop\/products\/cloud-study-handmade-shibori-silk-dress-with-velvet-sleeves","provider":"caitiedid","version":"1.0","type":"link"}