Somewhere between a grandmother's hands and a granddaughter's ambition, a tradition became a business. Every bag that leaves our workshop carries the same stitches that once decorated dowry trunks.
38 hrs
per bag, hand-stitched
3 gen.
of embroidery tradition
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machines used
The process
4. Sketch the motif
5. Select the thread
6. Hand-stitch
7. Quality check
“Every knot tells you something about the hand that made it. A machine can copy the pattern, never the person.”
Kamla Devi, master embroiderer, 32 years
By hand, not by machine
By hand
- Every piece slightly unique
- Thread tension varies naturally, adding texture
- 38 hours of skilled labour
By machine
- Identical, mass-produced
- Flat, uniform stitch
- Minutes on an automated head
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