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Kismet - Alchemy Ocean

44/45" Wide 100% Cotton | Kismet by Paula Nadelstern for Benartex. Paula Nadelstern's Dad would wander through the family?s two-bedroom apartment, singing ?I?m A Stranger in Paradise? from KISMET, a show first produced on Broadway in 1953. She grew up thinking kismet was an everyday American word meaning ?fate? or ?destiny?, slipping it nonchalantly into school essays. In fact, we borrowed it from Turkish in the 1800s, but it ultimately derives from Arabic and means "portion" or "lot." Alchemy looks like a left-over chemistry experiment gone wrong. Paula loved all 11 colorways. It?s an all-over with a forgiving temperament that will look the same from any angle. Fabrics like this with a lot of color in a tiny area will energize a project. Put the fabrics on a design wall and step back to see whether they work the way you intended or not. Check out the really deep, rich tonal black in the group. It is a paradox that black, defined as the absence of color, is the one that lets the other colors display their true hue. Paula recommends stockpiling truly dark black patterns like this one that aren?t grayed or blotchy.