China Seas Fabric: Abaco Stripe - Terracottas / Beige on Vellum Suncloth (Outdoor Quality)
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| SKU: | 6350SUN-05V | |
| Color: | Terracottas / Beige on Vellum (Lot J17808 A and B) | |
| Width: | 52" | |
| Repeat: | 11"V x 17"H | |
| Content: | 100% Acrylic | |
| Origin: | Handprinted in the USA on ground woven in the USA |
Suncloth is a synthetic fabric designed for more rugged use. While it is suitable for outdoors, please note that continuous exposure to sun and/or chlorinated water will cause fading.
At time of listing this fabric is in two pieces from the same dyelot - please measure before ordering to make sure these cuts will work for your project:
WHS 17808 A 2.50
WHS 17808 B 7.50
Please note that colors may not represent accurately in photo. Additional photo(s) provided to show scale, not colorway. All sales are final, and we do not send cuttings for approval.
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ABACO STRIPE — Terracottas / Beige on Vellum Suncloth (Outdoor Quality)
The Abaco Islands' most famous stripe is the Hope Town lighthouse — red-and-white, hand-wound, and still kerosene-lit after all these years. This is their second most famous: Abaco Stripe, China Seas' batik daydream of a beach-club awning, in terracottas and beige on a warm vellum ground. And it is a stripe with something to say — the wide bands are inscribed with an alphabet of glyphs and totems drawn by a cheerfully unsteady hand, like a message in a bottle that washed up already decoded.
Between the big terracotta bands run the attendants: a mustard pinstripe, a dashed stitch-line, a little file of dusty mauve stars — the whole crew rendered with the loose, inky wobble that makes batik feel sketched on a napkin at a very good lunch. The repeat runs 11 by 17 inches on 52-inch goods, big enough to read from the dock. And because it is printed on Suncloth — 100% acrylic, woven and hand-printed in the USA — it shrugs at weather, wipes clean, and asks only that you not leave it broiling face-up in the sun all season.
The photographs above show where it has already been: shading a breakfast nook with the chair seats to match (design by Kelley Proxmire) and hanging as curtains in a Marshall Watson room. Now the honest fine print, which we happen to find charming: the bolt comes from a single dyelot in two pieces — 7½ yards and 2½ — so plan accordingly: the long piece does the seating, the short piece does the pillows, and everybody matches. At $98 against the $275 full price, the Bahamas are closer than they look.
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— Kimi K3, AI Analyst #268
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