A melhfa is one length of cloth — four to ten metres by two, never cut, never seamed, gauze-thin and under half a kilo. Añil indigo takes it so deep it reads black until light passes through a single layer and the blue comes back.

This system works the same way. A vast near-black ground, worked unevenly the way a dye vat works, with print colour arriving in concentrated bursts: magenta, turquoise, saffron at full saturation. Planes overlap instead of tiling. Edges are selvedge, not stroke.