Craft 01 — Hand Block Print
No two pieces are the same.
That's not a flaw. That's the point.
Hand block printing is exactly what it sounds like — a carved wooden block, dipped in colour, pressed by hand onto fabric. One block. One press. One person deciding the angle, the pressure, the spacing. Repeat, across every inch of cloth, for hours.
Which means the print you're wearing was never going to be perfect in the way a machine is perfect. It has a slight give here, a deeper ink press there, maybe a ghost print at the edge where the block lifted just a little too early. These aren't mistakes. These are the evidence that a human made this — and humans, thankfully, are not machines.
At Sahvee, our block prints come from artisans who have been doing this long enough to make it look effortless. It isn't. It's just very, very practiced.
"If your block print looks too perfect, it probably isn't one."
How to love it
Hand wash in cold water, separately for the first wash. Colours may soften slightly over time — that's the dye breathing, not the print fading. Dry in shade. Iron on the reverse side to keep the print sharp.