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Sea and Sun Tie-Dye Shurta
FabricRayon · AZO-free dyes
FitRelaxed fit
ColourSun Yellow & Sea Blue
SizesS · M · L · XL
Price₹1,111
Limited 40 pieces ever · no re-stocks
Gentle cold hand-wash, separately · Do not wring · Dry in shade · Warm iron on reverse
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Sea and Sun
No block, no brush. The cloth is rolled into a rope, tied by hand, and dipped — the wave is what the dye never reached.
The craft · Jaipur & Jodhpur, Rajasthan · Since the 17th century
Leheriya — The wave, tied into cloth
Leheriya takes its name from leher — wave. There is no block and no brush: the cloth itself is rolled corner to corner into a long rope, bound at measured intervals with thread, and dipped. Where the thread grips, the dye cannot reach. Unrolled, the resist reads as a run of diagonal waves across the whole length — a pattern the dyer has to hold entirely in the hands, because it is never once seen flat while it is being made.
01
Roll
The open cloth is rolled diagonally into a single long rope — the angle of the roll sets the angle of every wave.
02
Bind
Thread is wound and knotted at measured intervals along the rope. Each binding is one white line held back from the dye.
03
Dye
The bound rope is dipped. For more than one colour the dyer unties, re-binds and dips again — colour over colour.
04
Open
The thread is cut away and the cloth opened for the first time. The wave only exists once it is unrolled.
“You tie it blind. You only meet the pattern when you open it.”
The story
✎ Written
Sea and Sun — tied blind
No block, no brush. The cloth is rolled into a rope, tied by hand, and dipped — and the dyer doesn't see the pattern until it's over.
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