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"The Common Pillow" Iceland Landscape Silk Pillow – Naturally Dyed & Batiked

€220.00
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This one-of-a-kind silk pillow blends contemporary digital imagery with traditional natural dyeing and batik techniques.

A photograph of an Icelandic landscape is digitally printed onto un-dyed 100% silk, creating a soft, atmospheric base image. The textile is then hand-batiked and naturally dyed by Christiana using botanical dyes including heather flowers, chamomile, tansy flowers, cutch, and onion skins. The interaction between the print, wax resist, and plant dyes creates layered colors, organic markings, and subtle tonal variations unique to each piece.

The pillow cover is machine sewn in our Athens-based studio and finished with a discreet invisible plastic zipper on the side.

Size: Approx.: 40 cm x 65 cm

Pillow-case only, no filling.

If you would like to purchase the filling, please email us.

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This one-of-a-kind silk pillow blends contemporary digital imagery with traditional natural dyeing and batik techniques.

A photograph of an Icelandic landscape is digitally printed onto un-dyed 100% silk, creating a soft, atmospheric base image. The textile is then hand-batiked and naturally dyed by Christiana using botanical dyes including heather flowers, chamomile, tansy flowers, cutch, and onion skins. The interaction between the print, wax resist, and plant dyes creates layered colors, organic markings, and subtle tonal variations unique to each piece.

The pillow cover is machine sewn in our Athens-based studio and finished with a discreet invisible plastic zipper on the side.

Size: Approx.: 40 cm x 65 cm

Pillow-case only, no filling.

If you would like to purchase the filling, please email us.

Batik

Batik is a wax-resist dyeing technique which originated in Indonesia.

The applied wax resists the dyes and therefore allows us to colour selectively by dyeing fabric in one colour and then removing the wax. In our practice, this is usually repeated a few times, creating layers with many different colours.

 

Natural Dyeing

Botanical dyeing is a slow process, that can be unpredictable and there are often pleasant colour surprises. It takes several hours to extract the natural pigment from plants, sometimes even days!