Dutch textile designer Simone Post has adapted a traditional wax printing technique to create a colourful fabric that combines 3D geometries with bubble patterns.
Post, who is also a founder of design studio Envisions, designed the Bubble Block Wax for Vlisco, a Dutch fabric manufacturer that produces textiles for the African market.
Simone Post created the textile using wax printing technique
The brand, which has been in business for over 170 years, uses a method derived from traditional Indonesian batik to create its African-inspired prints. Post adapted this technique to create bubble patterns that never repeat.
These bubbles are overlaid with a hypnotic geometric print that brings together 3D blocks and undulating waves.
It combines bubble pattern with a hypnotic geometric print "The irregularity in the bubbles is a unique quality, which means that no metre of Vlisco is exactly the same," explained Post.
"It indicates life in the textiles, which adds a quality unlike any other textile printing company," she told Dezeen.
Post's technique sees the wax-covered cloth get crushed before being indigo-dyed
Traditionally Vlisco's printing process involves using copper rollers to print a design onto cotton in wax. The fabric is then bathed in indigo dye, before parts of the wax are removed. After that, colours are printed on in layers.
"Printing with the wax has a lot of difficulties and technical limitations," explained Post, "for example,Â...