Each sea­son, A PEACE TREATY travels to a par­tic­u­lar region and seeks out local vil­lage artis­ans to re-define an access­ory, cre­at­ing lim­ited edi­tion pieces in style unique colorways.

For the S/S 2011 sea­son A PEACE TREATY presents ADIRE, an ode to the almost extinct res­ist dye pro­cesses of Yorube Adire tex­tile mak­ing. Tra­di­tion­ally craf­ted by women artis­ans and entre­pren­eurs, Yor­uba Adire tex­tiles were indigo dyed cloths pop­u­lar in Nigeria and parts of West­ern Africa. Chal­lenged by the dis­ap­pear­ance of these mas­ter­pieces, A PEACE TREATY traveled to one of the few exist­ing places with a thriv­ing indigo res­ist dye and hand block-printing industry — Rajasthan, India — to recre­ate these treas­ures of the past.

The mak­ing of ADIRE involved com­mis­sion­ing artis­ans to carve spe­cial wood blocks used for print­ing the neg­at­ive form intrinsic to res­ist dye tech­niques. The res­ult is a col­lec­tion of lus­cious silks and silky cot­tons dyed on with nat­ural and eco-friendly inks and dyes exhib­it­ing vary­ing pro­cesses like dabu and indigo dye­ing, wood block-printing, and hand-weaving cul­min­at­ing in vibrant West African inspired designs.