Handwoven Style – New Clothing — The Height of Summer
JAMDANI
HANDWOVEN
In Bengal, the humid climate demands an exceptionally fine, diaphanous weave. The resulting cloth is light and airy, able to catch the faintest breeze. Such cloths are known by the poetic term "woven air." Traditional dye techniques evolved to work with these exceptionally fine threads without breaking them.
This collection features some jamdani embellishments; a traditional technique where the artisan uses a supplementary weft thread to create intricate designs. At each throw of the shuttle, the weaver stops and turns the threads of the each motif by hand. As the weaver progresses a field with patterned embellishment emerges.
THREAD DYED COTTON
HANDWOVEN
This cloth is handwoven with fine cotton threads dyed with madder root, myrobalan, pomegranate rinds, marigolds, indigo & cutch. There are superfine and subtle stripes created in the warp - only 4 threads wide! This is where colour mixing gets to happen on the loom and the final cloth is so beautiful to behold.
FOR THE LOVE OF LINEN
Some Loves Last a Lifetime – For Us It's Linen. Our linen basic anchor all the stunning hand weave we get to work with at Maiwa. These designs are for everyday and always.
Linen gets better with age - taking on a buttery smoothness. These clothes are easy to wear. They can be combined with almost anything. To wear linen is to experience the profound pleasure of cloth.
Designed around the cloth and finished with our meticulous attention to detail, these are timeless garments that celebrate the beauty of cloth - and the love of linen.
To our U.S. customers – don't forget that the exchange rate works in your favour, it's like an extra discount.
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