Itajime Silk Milos Dress | gaddur
A billowing dress with underam side gathers; the weight of the gathers dips the dress in at the waist to give a feminine silhouette to the boxy shape. Roll the sleeves up and throw it on over your jeans or harem pants for a layered look.
- Wide-cut body with relaxed silhouette
- Dropped shoulders and 3/4 length sleeves
- Side seam pockets
- Mid-calf length
- Crafted in 80g habutai silk dyed in the itajime shibori technique
- All orders come lovingly packed in recycled silk bags.
- SM
- Length 43”
- Chest 44” round
- Sleeve length 17"
- Sleeve opening 12” round
- ML
- Length 44”
- Chest 48” round
- Sleeve length 17"
- Sleeve opening 14” round
+/- a tolerance inherent to hand made clothing
- SM
- Fabric: 100% habutai silk
- Handfeel: Soft & light with a fluid drape
- Care: Gentle & quick hand wash in mild detergent. Don't soak as some colours may run. Drip dry in the shade. Gentle steam iron.
- Origin: Gujarat, India
Textile Story
Our Itajime Silk Collection has been hand-crafted in the workshop of two of India's foremost Master Craftsmen; Jabbar and Abdullah Khatri in Bhuj, Gujarat.
Shibori is a 1300 year old tie and dye technique developed in Japan involving the folding and clamping or otherwise securing of fabric prior to dyeing. Itajime is one technique of shibori which uses pieces of wood clamped together around sections of folded fabric to resist the dye in particular shapes.
Each three meter section of fabric is individually folded, clamped, tied and dyed; and this repeated several times to get layers of colours. It's a time consuming and exacting technique with bold geometric results. Any variations or irregularities are part of the design and inherent to the production process.
