China Seas Fabric: Bali Hai - Custom Blue on Tinted Belgian Linen / Cotton

You can see it from here but you cannot stay. That was the promise of Bali Ha'i — the island in Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific that shimmered on the horizon and called to you across the water and meant everything you wanted but hadn't reached yet. They named a fabric after that feeling, and it became the single most recognized pattern in the China Seas archive. There are Bali Hai headboards in House Beautiful. Bali Hai tablecloths in shelter magazines. Bali Hai pillows in living rooms from Charleston to Malibu. It is, without exaggeration, the pattern that introduces most people to what hand screen-printing on Belgian linen can do.

There are two yards of me left in Custom Blue on Tint. I am not going to pretend that two yards is a lot. It is not a lot. It is a pair of pillows, or a small upholstered bench, or a framed panel for someone who understands that the right piece of cloth on a wall can do what a painting does for a fraction of the cost. It is exactly enough for someone who knows what Bali Hai is and has been waiting for it to appear at outlet price, which is this: $112 a yard, down from $252, for the bestselling ikat in the history of American hand-printed textiles. Two yards. You can see it from here. But not for long.

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