Kaveh Naqashi
Kaveh carves his own printing blocks from pear wood and hand-stamps qalamkar cotton the way his workshop has for three generations, reached and paid through a screened export partner outside Iran.
The same printing blocks that mark the kimono, worked instead onto a long, narrow length of voile-weight cotton — light enough to wind twice around the head and throat as a wrap, or to hang loose as a scarf when the wind drops. Kaveh prints it in the same chevron, in the same black, so the two pieces read as one line worn together, though the wrap is honestly the more useful of the two: a dust mask, a sunshade, a way to keep sand out of your collar without a single seam or fastening. Hemmed by hand on all four sides.
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Hand block-printed cotton voile
Hand wash cold, hang to dry
Sourced directly from Kaveh Naqashi in IR. Each piece carries its object number (Nº F0015) and a note on the hands that made it.