About Our Brands And Artisan Clusters
Our partner brands are predominantly women-led businesses, and our featured collections directly support artisans, small rural businesses, and other community-level organisations. Each of our partners are actively trying to revive, preserve and promote the use of natural and sustainable materials, handwoven and hand dyed fabrics, hand embroidery, and other traditional crafts and techniques.
23N.69E
Anas Sheikh's 23°N 69°E merges modern sensibilities with traditional Indian craftsmanship. His work, largely focussed on Ajrakh style block printing on handwoven fabric, marries this age old craft with other textile printing styles including hand painting to create unique, gender-neutral, and versatile garments.
Avani
Built on the ethos of environmentally sustainable development, Earthcraft works only with natural fibres and yarns, like eri silk, tussar silk, muga silk, linen, harsil wool and 100% merino wool.
The Earthcraft team wholly embraces slow living and slow fashion. In a world where there is so much mass production and consumption and use and throwaway fashion, products like theirs, which have been made by hand, and given ample time and care in the process of creation, are potential heirlooms that will last for years and years.
Bakr
Based in Fort Kochi, in southern India, is dedicated to meticulously crafting limited edition collections from 100% organic cotton, adorned with hand-printed designs, and dyed using 100% natural colors. Every garment is individually hand-printed, hand-painted, and hand-dyed in-house.
Bijuri
Born as an idea in Japan and hand made in India, Bijuri blends minimal with maximal. We use hand woven and hand printed heritage textile to create contemporary fashion for the urban wildling who craves a touch of whimsy on a foundation of easy classics. Our timeless styles are effortless, easy to style up or down, and fabulous to wear no matter where in the world you are.
Chola
Chola's designs are based on the idea of "less is more" and are meant to be comfortable, versatile, and flattering for all body types. Chola uses sustainable and eco-friendly materials like organic cotton, linen, and handwoven textiles, to create limited edition collections where every detail is delightful.
Classico
Classico was born from a love for old things, poetic and timeless, vintage, one-of-a- kind pieces. The exquisite selection of vintage pieces curated (and restored when necessary) reflects the idea that heritage pieces have a soul and voice, and deserve to be celebrated, worn with love and passed onward.
Crow
The process of making our clothes is of extreme significance. There is a thought put in every stage of the making; this creates a bond between the people who work with us during the entire process of making our collection. The weaver, supplier, manufacturer, our team of "karigar's" and designers work towards implementing the particular design giving birth to a garment with the same thought.
The happiness and wellbeing of our staff, our customers, and the environment is of utmost importance to us. As a proud team of makers, we only wish to spread goodness with our clothing brand and give you a pleasurable experience of prosperity, security, and splendour.
Khara Kapas
‘Khara Kapas’ meaning ‘pure cotton” in Hindi started with the belief that well designed clothes made from pure fabrics can bring happiness into people’s everyday life.
All our products are handcrafted, and made from pure, homegrown Indian fabrics. Our design philosophy revolves around the idea of minimalism, clean cuts and relaxed silhouettes, in pure fabrics, earthy tones and simple Indian motifs and prints.
KIlchu
KIlchu was started with the Idea to design/ market products that are handmade or Hand Woven with skill sets across the country. To have the villages be a part of this urban economy and benefit from the transactions.
We at Kilchu love everything culture, material and form; Our end products are reflective of our study around these areas. The brand's name is inspired by the founder-designer's native place.
Mapcha
Mapcha is a Himalayan brand that brings forth the Himalayan way of life in a modern aesthetic rooted in traditions and culture - mainly focusing on clothing, jewellery and lifestyle design.
Mapcha means peacock in Tibetan, and the brand aims to bring forward creative stories from the region, and by its people. Engaging and reinterpreting it as they move out from their original contexts into a new location.
Mason and Mill
As a design philosophy, Mason and Mill believes in a minimalist approach towards designing thoughtful silhouettes that not only keep the wearer at ease with everyday movement but also uplift their personality.
A penchant for conscious lifestyles, natural homes, for living in a small town in slower days and for gracefully performing everyday chores, all with a loved one, leave a noticeable mark on the products offered and the aesthetics of the brand.
Nambi Kai
A young homegrown brand on a mission to modernise kalamkari (hand painting) on textile by using traditional methods and natural colours to create bold, contemporary patterns. These one of a kind pieces are made on order on natural textile.
Okhai
Okhai offers handcrafted apparel and lifestyle products created by rural artisans from across India. These artisans are gifted with the talent and traditional skills to craft exquisite designs in styles that are unique to their culture and heritage.
Okhai has been identified as a promising means of generating livelihood for hundreds of rural artisans. Okhai has made a significant contribution to the lives of the women artisans working with it, which has helped improve their economic as well as social status.
Paher
Embracing the beauty of hand crafted textiles with a "wabi sabi" perspective to life, Paher aims to create clothes that honor the skills of traditional craftsmen and textile weavers, while speaking to the soul of urban earth lovers.
RIAS
A young clothing brand based in Jaipur, RIAS JAIPUR is “an initiative to keep handmade techniques alive.”
The label focuses on two ancient crafts of India, Dabu/bagru & hand block printing onto handwoven fabrics, it is a cocktail of ancient printing and weaving techniques of Rajasthan and West Bengal.
The brand aims to innovate and create striking outfits, using a combination of old techniques and our modern design skills.
Strange Love
The brand represents a lust for beautiful things! The mind must alter and the mind must desire. Interior projects, space design, furniture, objects of desire and clothing are all designed keeping in mind that we must preserve knowledge and celebrate the craftsmen of India.
Based in Goa.
Teev
The brand was started to express the designer's love of handloom cotton. "Our breath connects our bodies with everything and the culture of hand weaving cotton from farm to fabric was developed to allow the body to breathe."
TEEV pieces are crafted from handloom cotton to honour this traditional science with contemporary styling
The Handmade Edit
A small-batch showcase of various textile making and printing techniques, we make unisex jackets and accessories that seamlessly slide into your wardrobe. Each collection has no more than a dozen pieces made exclusively for us, and each time we use a different printing style or technique or a new textile, pretty much what we fall in love with during our travels across the textile and craft clusters in India. Our collections are symbolic of our love for textile and craft and creating pieces that you can share and wear in multiple ways, almost all year.
The Summer House
All our fabrics come from an environment that does not abuse the earth. All our clothing is made in our own production studio. Each edit we produce has a story, and heart and uses responsible processes and old fashioned techniques to create products that will outlast the season.
We design and manufacture in small batches, keeping in mind ethical production, quality and affordability. We have made a choice to be inclusive, fair and responsible. At The Summer House, we believe Pure is Beautiful.
Tokree Jaipur
Tokree's journey began in 2013 as a concept store dedicated to clothes, antique finds, and artisanal arts and crafts from across Rajasthan. The brand has placed natural fabrics and a modern look at the spirit of Rajasthan at the heart of its work.
Women Weave
WomenWeave aims to connect women weavers with sustainable livelihoods. Many of the women have never woven before and WW therefore provides them with training and opportunities for progressive skills enhancement in order to maximise their livelihood opportunities. Where women have acted as “shadow weavers”, supplementing male family member’s work, WomenWeave creates opportunities for them to gain more control over and be recognised for their labour, as well as enhance their skill-set.