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Tie&Dye
Bandhani, shibori, leheria and the deep vats of indigo and madder.
Cloth is pinched, bound with thread, and plunged into the vat. Where the thread was, the cloth stays pale. Bandhani, the tie-dye of Gujarat and Rajasthan, is that idea repeated ten thousand times.
The finest bandhani has dots so small and so close that the finished cloth reads as texture rather than pattern. It is tied by women in Kutch and Jamnagar, dyed by families who have kept vats for generations, and untied in a single sudden pull that reveals the design. Hand-knotted and hand-dyed, as our brochure said, several hundred times.
Beyond bandhani we work with leheria (diagonal wave stripes), clamp-resist, stitched-resist shibori and crumpled crinkle silks, and with plain dyeing in natural indigo, madder, pomegranate and iron. Our dyers work in copper cauldrons and sunken tanks, washing the cloth in open water between dips.
The results are scarves, stoles and dupattas in silk, bedcovers and quilts, and the softly variegated plain-dyed cloth we use across all our other work.
What we make with it
- Silk scarves & stoles
- Crinkle silk shawls
- Bandhani dupattas
- Silk quilts & bedcovers
- Cushions
- Plain-dyed yardage
Made to order, to your design or ours. Ask for a sample.
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