Cacah Gori Archive Checkerboard Pillow — Black & White Size:60 x 60 Pillow The dainty white dots resemble

The dainty white dots resemble the isen-isen of kembang manggar batik — a type of flower craft decorating traditional festivities

A pair of these fabrics are sewn together and lined with fringes to disguise stitches while creating a playful texture to the whole look

The base fabric is handwoven by backstrap loom weavers in Pak Fajar's house

It is made by Japanese 'Washi' or paper yarn on top of handwoven rayon fabric

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Cacah Gori Archive Checkerboard Pillow — Black & White Size:60 x 60 Pillow The dainty white dots resembleCacah Gori conceives a criss cross pattern as an adaptation of the traditional Javanese isen isen motif. A textured checkerboard motif is created with the weft floats weaving technique using two complimentary coloured threads. The first of the triple toned series is the brown and white pattern woven out of endemic Tuban brown cotton. Native to the Tuban region, kapas lowo or brown cotton takes a year to harvest, sometimes longer. The slow life cycle