Cotton bolts soak in fuchsia and coral vats for two full days — the colour has to read from across the lagoon.
Each block is carved flat with no shading. If a petal doesn't read at six metres, it's recut from scratch.
One printer walks the bolt end to end so the silhouettes line up — a second pair of hands always breaks the rhythm.
Salt air, four hours of trade wind, no machine drying. The pigments set bright and the cloth keeps its hand.