HULDA BRIDGEMAN | Elegant Vintage Handmade Tucked Kimono Jacket Wearart Art | L

Vintage hand-dyed and handmade one-of-a-kind Hulda Bridgeman jacket. It fits like a medium or large; please check measurements. This is a piece of wearable art with some pilling and strings on the inside of the garment as pictured. The peach and coral fabrics with a touch of turquoise make this a beautiful piece for any artsy wardrobe. Hulda begins by hand-dyeing different types of silk fabric with fiber reactive dyes, in a resist process which can yield several shades and even different hues from a single immersion in the dye bath. Some fabrics are re-manipulated and re-dyed several times. She then begins an individual garment by choosing colors intuitively, holding silk fabrics together to see which combinations excite her eye. The different silk fabrics are cut, often into strips for the tucked garments, juxtaposed for a rich and subtle surface, and pieced. Freehand tucking is laid over the pieced fabric to visually blend areas and create a relief surface with an organic, rippling texture and a sense of movement. Finally, the garment is cut out and assembled.