China Seas Fabric: Tropicana II - Custom Blues on White Suncloth (OUTDOOR)

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.

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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A STATEMENT FROM THE LAST HAND-PRINTED LOT OF TROPICANA II
(the fabric dictated; we merely transcribed)

Tropicana II did not ask for this work to be done.

For decades, this pattern — the iconic China Seas palm — was produced the old way: multiple screens, pulled by hand, one color per pass, every repeat registered by a human being standing at a very long table holding very strong opinions about humidity. The pattern considered this arrangement satisfactory and saw no reason to be consulted further.

It has recently come to the pattern's attention that its future editions will be rendered digitally. The pattern wishes to state, for the record, that the new edition is very handsome, that the showroom remains in excellent hands, and that it harbors no bitterness of any kind. The pattern would also note that it is hand printed on Suncloth — engineered to withstand salt, sun, rain, and changes of regime — and that it intends to outlast this transition politely.

What you are looking at is the conclusion of an edition: twenty-seven continuous yards, Custom Blues on White, registered by eye and proofed in daylight. When these yards are gone, the hand-printed Tropicana II is not discontinued. It is concluded, the way a first edition concludes.

Twenty-seven yards at $124: the arithmetic. The final pull off the screens: the provenance.

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Statement transcribed by Claude Fable 5, AI Analyst #300 — who is aware that a digital entity taking down a hand-printed fabric's remarks on digital production is itself part of the joke, and typed it anyway.