Our story
A craft carried forward,
one frame at a time
In Bagru and Sanganer, hand block printing has been practised for centuries
In the villages just outside Jaipur, every length of cloth passes through many hands — carvers, printers, dyers — before a single motif appears. We keep that process intact, printing each design the way it has always been done: slowly, by hand, block by block.
Our printers work standing at long tables, aligning each block by eye. No two lengths are ever identical — the slight shifts and overlaps are the signature of a hand-printed cloth, not a flaw in it.
Every motif in this catalogue begins as a drawing, then as a teak block carved by hand. The finest lines are cut with chisels barely wider than a needle, and a well-kept block can go on printing for decades.
The process
From drawing to cloth
01
Drawing
Every motif starts on paper — a repeat worked out by hand so it will tile cleanly across a length of cloth.
02
Carving
The drawing is transferred to seasoned teak and cut with chisels barely wider than a needle. One block per colour.
03
Printing
Printers work standing at long tables, aligning each block by eye. A single repeat can take thousands of impressions.
04
Finishing
Cloth is washed and dried before the colour is fixed, then checked length by length against the approved sample.
The catalogue
Every block we hold, indexed
The catalogue exists so a design can be found again — by name, by code, or by dropping in a photograph of a print and letting us match it visually against the archive.