Sweetie Palette - Bandhani Indian Cotton

An unusual south Indian cotton from Merchant & Mills with a soft and silky handle, similar to sateen. A beautiful rich emerald green that has been hand dyed using an Indian Bandhani technique with dark pink, white and yellow detail.

Bandhani is a traditional tie-dye technique where the cloth is pinched with fingernails and bound in thread. This gives the fabric lots of dots of different colours.

Please note that some of the threads may still be on the reverse of the cloth, just give it shake, and they will fall off!

This cloth would make beautiful skirts, dresses, tops and shirts. It would also be suitable for lightweight curtains.

Indian handlooms are sometimes susceptible to irregularities in the weave due to their handmade nature, this is all part of their charm and are not classed as flaws.

For the first couple of washes, place the fabric in the washing machine drum with a handful of table salt. This will help fix the dye to prevent it running.

Wash at 30 or 40 degrees with a non bio detergent. Do not tumble.

Fabric is sold by the half metre. For example, if you would like to order 1 metre, please add "2" to your basket, or if you'd like 1.5 metres add "3".

Please note that fabric is cut to order, so it is not possible to return or exchange purchases.

We do our best to take accurate pictures of our fabrics, but colours may differ slightly to the original fabric due to variation between monitor screens.