Bring craftsmanship into the heart of your home.
Hand block printed on 100% organic cotton using natural dyes. Our napkins are made for long lunches outside, picnic blankets scattered in the grass, gatherings large and small, meals that stretch into evening.
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
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SET THE TABLE
CLOTH TO GATHER AROUND
One of our great joys is seeing the artisan cloth, woven and dyed by the many communities we work with across India, find its way into a well-loved home.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
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A new collection of Ajrakh for your table in 100% certified organic cotton.
Friday, October 03, 2025
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A gorgeous handwoven linen napkin to adorn your table.
Thursday, September 18, 2025
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A gorgeous handwoven linen napkin to adorn your table.
Functional and beautiful.
Bring warmth to your table with our handwoven linen napkins, making every meal feel special. Pair them with our hand block printed tablecloths – they complement each other beautifully!
Impeccably constructed from exquisite handwoven linen cloth that is buttery to the hand and will just get better and better with age.
PAIRS PERFECTLY WITH OUR TABLE RUNNERS, PLACEMATS & BLOCK PRINTED TABLECLOTHS
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
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Introducing our new Bandhani table runners.
This cloth is the result of a design collaboration between Maiwa and master Bandhani artisans from the Kachchh Desert of Gujarat, Western India. The handwoven cotton cloth becomes a canvas—where every motif, every line, is brought to life through the intricate translation of thousands of hand-tied knots. There’s a quiet poetry in seeing a design reimagined in this way—each dot a gesture of time, care, and tradition.
Tuesday, June 03, 2025
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BEAUTY EVERYWHERE
Come and see how we celebrate the beauty and comfort of contemporary craft.
Handmade textile artistry everywhere – inside and outside your home.
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
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TABLECLOTHS & NAPKINS
A new selection of cloth for your table.
All in natural dyes on certified organic cotton.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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JUST ARRIVED!
NEW TABLECLOTHS
We call them tablecloths — but they are so much more. You can take them anywhere, and anywhere you put one down it will create a sense of place.
Thursday, October 26, 2023
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TABLECLOTHS & NAPKINS
A new selection of cloth for your table. Beautifully block printed by the kalamkari artisans of South India, bandhani tied by artisans in Rajasthan, and block printed with the Dabu resist technique by artisans living near Jaipur. All in natural dyes on certified organic cotton.
Thursday, August 31, 2023
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Give your guests a visual feast before the food even arrives.
Tuesday, July 04, 2023
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Give your guests a visual feast before the food even arrives.
Celebrate return to table; a return to making a place for friends and family. Play with geometry and pattern, a plate, a cup, a setting for everything. Maiwa tablecloths and napkins: hand block printed with natural dyes in the Dabu tradition.
THE DABU PRINT
Dabu is the name of this block printing technique made famous in Rajasthan. We work with several traditional block printing communities: all work with hand carved wooden blocks and traditional patterning techniques.
MEET THE ARTISANS
THE DABU BLOCK PRINTERS
A short clip of dabu block printing being done in Rajasthan, India
See it on our Instagram Feed.
Read more about dabu and the craft of block printing here.
To our U.S. customers – don't forget that the exchange rate works in your favour, it's like an extra discount.
Thursday, December 01, 2022
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WHAT THE WELL-SET TABLE IS WEARING
THE BAGH BLOCK PRINT
Bagh is the place in India where these distinctive patterns are born.
The graphic nature of a Bagh print adds character and depth to any setting. The patterning is a beautiful balance of figure and ground that allows motif and colour to sing together. Hand block printed on 100% organic cotton using natural dyes and traditional techniques.
The graphic impact of a Bagh block print is due to the dramatic use of of red and black; a style which originates with the Bhil and Bhilala cultures residing in Madhya Pradesh, India. The printers of Bagh are Khatris who migrated south from Rajasthan during the Mughal incursions. They remained to take advantage of the high copper content of the Baghini river. Today, a few small studios still follow a traditional block printing process.
Light and medium weight cotton cloth is scoured and prepared with a complex mixture containing tannin. The cloth is printed with mordants, but as the mordants themselves give no colour during application, a bright pink dye is added - traditionally from the dhawda (flame of the forest) flower. This dye permits the artisans to check registration of the patterns and align overprints. Areas which appear pink during this initial stage will appear deep red when the cloth is finished.
Traditional dye methods include the fermentation of iron-water to give a black colour. Horseshoes and other scrap iron is added to a jaggery-water mixture in a process which can last between fifteen and thirty-five days. The distinctive blocks are carved from hardwood and can print thousands of impressions before needing to be recut.
Washing during the various stages of the printing process is still done by the riverside. Lengths of unfinished cloth with the distinctive pink colour are evidence of traditional artisans at work.
Maiwa works with Bagh craftspeople using traditional block printing techniques. The bold patterns are a proud and dramatic statement of the cultural heritage of this area.
To our U.S. customers – don't forget that the exchange rate works in your favour, it's like an extra discount.
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
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