The Ajrakh Edit
Printed by hand in Kutch. Finished by hand in Bengaluru.
Each saree starts in Kutch, Gujarat, with Ajrakh printers registered with India's Ministry of Textiles. They stamp the design onto modal satin using hand-carved wooden blocks. The colours come from nature: indigo from the indigo plant, red from madder root, black from iron and jaggery. Every design is printed in a small batch and not repeated.
The printed fabric then comes to our Bengaluru atelier, where our artisans hand-embellish it with Japanese glass beads and Czech crystals. What reaches you is a saree printed by one workshop and finished by another, with no machine step in between.
How an Ajrakh is made
Ajrakh takes days, not hours. The cloth is washed, printed, dyed and dried in the sun over and over, up to sixteen times, before it is ready.
