Resisted Cotton Iya Smock
An oversized smock in resist-dyed cotton, cut for movement.
A roomy smock in heavyweight cotton, bound and resisted by hand before dyeing so the pattern reads as light against deep indigo.
Cut wide and easy, it is meant to be thrown on and lived in. The blue deepens where it is worn most.
Stitched and bound by hand before it ever meets the vat, so the indigo settles around the resist rather than over it. Each smock is dipped in stages across several days, the cotton drawn from the same West African co-operative that supplies the studio.
Cold hand wash, alone at first. Line dry in shade. The resist lines will breathe and shift a little with wear; that movement is the piece doing what it was made to do.
