Meera Tabriz Kaftan

Meera of Tabriz left a palace for devotion. She traded silk thrones for bare feet and a single, singing love that asked for everything. We named this piece for her because black cotton silk sheer does something similar: it asks you to stop hiding. This is fabric that forgets it's fabric. Cotton silk woven so fine it holds the shape of your body without holding you back, black that isn't heavy, it's containment, the kind of dark that lets your skin breathe and still keeps your secrets. You'll feel the sheerness on your arms before you see it in the mirror. It moves when you move. It settles when you stop. Handwoven and hand-dyed by the same Balinese artisan family who has held this loom for three generations, working from their home the way they always have, no factory, no shortcuts. The black is built in layers, dyed slow enough that no two lengths of cloth take the pigment quite the same way. Every stitch was made by hand, holding devotion the whole way through. One size, cut generous through the body and drapes rather than clings, most women from a US 2 to a 14 move through it easily. Because this is made to order, expect four to six weeks before it reaches you, that time is not a delay, it's the work. Hand wash cold, hang to dry out of direct sun, steam rather than iron. For the woman who has already done the work of being seen and is ready to be witnessed instead, the Meera Kaftan is for the threshold moment, the dinner where you arrive changed, the ceremony where you stop performing and start belonging to yourself. This fabric is sheer by design. Some women wear it with nothing beneath and let the black do what it does, others layer it over a slip. Either way is correct. Because this is a small batch and each length is dyed by hand, expect subtle variation in depth of black from piece to piece, this is not a flaw, it's proof a person made it. Size: One size Colour: Black Fabric: Handwoven cotton silk, sheer by design Care: Hand wash cold. Hang dry out of direct sun. Steam rather than iron.