Chapter I — Harf °04
Paivandپیوند
“the graft, the bond”
Washed tee — patchwork vao pieced from salvaged textiles
A letter assembled from the memories of other apparel — brocade, khaddar, block-print — grafted into one body.
Paivand is the word for joining a branch to a tree so both keep living. That is the whole brand, in one stitch.
- Materials
- Stone-washed cotton · Salvaged brocade, khaddar and block-print fragments · Cotton embroidery floss
- Hand techniques
- Patchwork piecing · Hand embroidery · Raw-edge appliqué
- Hours of hand-work
- 31
- Edition
- 1 / 1
Sanad — chain of authenticity
VAO·I·04
Sealed with a hand-numbered certificate recording the hours, the materials, and the artisan's initial — with a fragment of the material it was born from.