Itajime Habutai Silk Square Scarf - aka

Light and luxurious habutai silk scarf, hand-dyed in the itajime shibori technique. This style in a classic square.

• Size 44" X 44” 
• Hand-rolled edges
• Itajime is the technique of clamp dying; utilising blocks and clamps to pattern the cloth through dips in multiple dye baths, in order to build up layers of colour.
• Please note that every piece of fabric is clamped and dyed individually, so there are small variations in colour and pattern between pieces. 

Textile Story

The 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.

Please note that every piece of fabric is clamped and dyed individually, so there are small variations in colour and pattern between pieces.