fibre terroir

The Case for Textile Terroir
The Case for Textile Terroir
We name the slope a wine came from and the estate behind a chocolate bar ... then buy a towel with no idea what grew it, or whose hands finished... Read more...
Series 03: Ladakh's Fine Wool
Series 03: Ladakh's Fine Wool
At high passes, winter is the loom's first collaborator. Cold this severe forces herds to grow an undercoat so fine it's combed out by hand, a few grams at a... Read more...
Series 02: Gujarat's Kala Cotton
Series 02: Gujarat's Kala Cotton
India's oldest cultivated cotton grows on rainfall alone, in a salt desert at the country's western edge — and no machine can spin it. The story of Kala Cotton: the... Read more...
Series 07: Karnataka's Recycled Cotton
Series 07: Karnataka's Recycled Cotton
The Deccan Collection reimagines industrial textile waste as luxury. Virgin fabric remnants destined for landfills is intercepted—clean, never-worn material from cutting room floors—and transformed by hand. First, it is sorted... Read more...
Series 01: Gujarat's Resilient Sheep Wool
Series 01: Gujarat's Resilient Sheep Wool
Long before dawn breaks over the Banni grasslands of Kachchh, the Rabari pastoralists are already moving—guiding their flocks across landscape that shifts between green abundance and parched survival. The Pastoralist... Read more...
We're Back.
We're Back.
The pandemic forced us to close in 2020, but craft traditions don't pause easily. While we were shuttered, Jentilal continued weaving in Kachchh, Premiben kept spinning in Kachchh, and the... Read more...