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We bring you our Summer Collection of Slow Clothes in colourful block prints and hand weaves. For us, making clothing means opening up the process to include hand spinners, hand weavers, natural dyers, block printers, embroiderers...all the skilled artisans who are left behind in the rush to mass produce clothing.
Thursday, July 24, 2025 No comments


Our new collection of handwoven linen and kala cotton in gingham checks, soft stripes, and bold weaves.
Thursday, June 05, 2025 No comments



This Spring Collection brings you an exceptional handwoven linen cloth in our Quilted Juniper Jacket and a new pant style called the Ginkgo Pant which has a signature selvedge hem.
Thursday, April 17, 2025 No comments

 

  

The Indigo Botanical Coat

Naturally Dyed - Handwoven

A Maiwa piece that you'll reach for over and over again. Sewn from exquisite artisan cloth; thread dyed with natural indigo and handwoven by village artisans in India.
Thursday, March 27, 2025 No comments

 



Beauty inside and out...the perfect gift for someone you love. These robes, wraps, and shirts live in the world of honest cloth — handwoven, naturally dyed, hand stitched.
Thursday, December 05, 2024 No comments

 




While handweavers know that cloth is like architecture, dyers see cloth as a palette, a canvas. Bring these two artisan groups together and the creative possibilities are endless.

Tuesday, October 22, 2024 No comments

 




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.
Thursday, July 18, 2024 No comments



Kahani means "Story"

This is a well-named dress. We brought it to the shore and matched its colour to the sky and the distant mountains. 
Tuesday, July 09, 2024 No comments

 




WEAVINGS FROM NAGALAND
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 No comments




Traditional handloom is a remarkably flexible technology. Handloom permits weaving from fibres too fine to be handled by industrial mills. The mechanism of the loom (almost always worked with bare feet) permits the weaver to judge by feel when it is too damp, or too dry to continue working with hand spun cotton.
Thursday, May 23, 2024 No comments

 



We've spent years developing this handwoven fabric. We encouraged a small group of famously talented Bengal weavers to return to natural dyes. They accepted the challenge - combining dyeing skills with their hereditary talents in transforming thread into cloth.
Thursday, May 16, 2024 No comments



Natural indigo

Dyed in the thread

Handwoven

Thursday, February 22, 2024 No comments

 







WEAVINGS FROM NAGALAND

These are cushion covers and table runners handwoven by artisans from Nagaland. In the farthest reaches of North-east India is Dimapur, a beautiful mountainous place bordered by Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar.  Nagaland is home to 16 hill tribes who weave their distinctive patterns and motifs on back-strap looms.  These are contemporary tribal weavings. Read more about the Nagaland Weavers here.
Tuesday, August 29, 2023 No comments

 



ARTISANS, HANDWEAVES,
BLOCK PRINTS & NATURAL DYES

What's behind our clothing: from the kalamkari block printers of South India, to the handweavers of Bengal, to the dabu mud-resist printers of Rajasthan. 
Thursday, August 03, 2023 No comments


THREADS OF RURAL LIFE: BENGAL
And so, in the end, all of our threads come together: dyeing, weaving, craft, life.  
Thursday, March 23, 2023 No comments




HANDWOVEN, NATURALLY DYED YARDAGE
FROM BENGAL

We've spent years developing this handwoven fabric. We encouraged the famously talented Bengal weavers to return to natural dyes. They accepted the challenge - combining dyeing skills with their hereditary talents in transforming thread into cloth.
Tuesday, January 24, 2023 No comments

 



HANDWOVEN, NATURALLY DYED YARDAGE
FROM BENGAL
Tuesday, July 05, 2022 No comments



Kahani means "Story"

This is a well-named dress. We brought it to the shore and matched its colour to the sky and the distant mountains. 
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 No comments


A NEW INNOVATION

For years we have worked with Dhebaria Rabari embroiderers. They make very playful, geometric patters through the appliqué technique. We also partner with block printing families who use natural dyes and who work in the Ajrakh tradition. The embroiderers and block printers live in the same area. And so, another collaboration was born.
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 No comments

 



HANDWOVEN, NATURALLY DYED YARDAGE
FROM BENGAL

We've spent years developing this handwoven fabric. We encouraged the famously talented Bengal weavers to return to natural dyes. They accepted the challenge - combining dyeing skills with their hereditary talents in transforming thread into cloth.
Thursday, April 28, 2022 No comments
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