Pre-Hispanic dye, Şeki silk
Americas
The cochineal red of Oaxaca met the silk weavers of the Caucasus. Neither tradition had ever touched the other. This is one meeting. The Americas have many more stories waiting.
Finest silk dyed with natural roots.
Collections from Americas
By motif
Buta
The almond-flame — the motif at the base of the Bakı type, and the first shape a master learns to carve.
15 pieces
SHOP →Çələng
The wreath — flower heads closed into a ring at the heart of the cloth.
4 pieces
SHOP →Şəmsə
The sun medallion — the ancient solar sign pressed at the centre of the kelaghayi.
3 pieces
SHOP →By colour
Göy
The blues — counted among the healing colours, worn to turn the eye away.
11 pieces
SHOP →Al
The reds — al is the bride's colour, the scarf a mother-in-law gives, that veils the face and swaddles a first child.
9 pieces
SHOP →Yaşıl
The greens — one of the seven colours of the yeddi rəng, the palette a master must command.
6 pieces
SHOP →Bənövşə
The violets — alvan, the living colour a young woman is expected to wear.
5 pieces
SHOP →Qızıl
The golds — onion skin and ochre, the tones the earth gives up most readily.
4 pieces
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Mexico
Frida Luna
A Oaxacan artist of Zapotec descent, Frida Luna weaves pre-Hispanic cosmological symbols into contemporary textile design. Her palette is dr…
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Frida Luna
A Oaxacan artist of Zapotec descent, Frida Luna weaves pre-Hispanic cosmological symbols into contemporary textile design. Her palette is drawn from cochineal red, indigo blue, and the black of charred copal wood — the same natural dyes her ancestors used centuries before synthetic color existed.