Quadrille Fabric: Les Indiennes Multicolor - Custom Red / Blue / Olive Green on Belgian Linen / Cotton

To describe Les Indiennes is to describe a ghost that has been haunting the textile world since the 17th century—a pattern that is simultaneously a travelogue, a botanical study, and a high-fashion rebellion.

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.

This colorway — Custom Red, Blue, and Olive Green from the JSPEC A dye lot — is Les Indiennes in a mood the 17th-century traders would have recognized: the palette of a spice route. The red has the warmth of madder root, the blue deepens like indigo at the bottom of a dye vat, and the olive green is the color of something that has been growing in humid air for a very long time. These are not colors that were chosen from a fan deck. They are colors that were mixed by hand for a specific commission, and what you are looking at is the remainder — the yards that survived after the project took what it needed. The Ghost, in this particular incarnation, arrived by sea and has no intention of going back.