Quadrille Fabric: Casuarina Paisley - Multi Blues on White Belgian Linen / Cotton

The casuarina tree grows in coastal Australia and Southeast Asia, where it has been quietly ignored by Western botanists for centuries because it looks like a pine tree but isn't one — it belongs to an entirely different order and simply refuses to explain itself. The paisley motif on this fabric has a similar relationship with taxonomy: it appears to be a teardrop, or a leaf, or a bent cypress, or a mango, depending on which century and which continent you're consulting. Kashmir weavers called it buta. The Persians called it boteh. The British called it "paisley" after a town in Scotland where they were making knockoff versions by 1800.

This is the original. Two yards of it, handprinted in New Jersey on Belgian linen-cotton ground, in blues ranging from pale celadon to deep indigo, with the dotwork details that only survive a hand-pulled screen.

Two yards. We are not getting more.