A Maiwa piece that you'll reach for over and over again. Sewn from exquisite artisan cloth; thread dyed with natural indigo and handwoven by village artisans in India.
This groundbreaking workshop will lead students through a number of projects on silk, cotton, linen, wool, and paper. Through contact printing, immersion baths, bundling and binding techniques, and the magic of indigo, this workshop will explore new, uncharted territory on textiles.
The design on these Bandhani shawls is the result of thousands of tiny knots tied on the cloth before it is dyed. After dyeing, the cloth retains a memory of the resist thread - it takes on a sculptural form unlike anything else.
Light and bright and ready for Spring – a colourful offering of Ajrakh block printed shawls.
Ajrakh is the name of a cloth that has been blockprinted in the traditional method using natural dyes such as indigo, madder, and pomegranate. The ajrakh process is a long one, involving several steps of washing and scouring the cloth, then additional steps to mordant the cloth, and still more steps as each colour is either directly blockprinted or resist blockprinted with natural dyes. The order is of utmost importance as the layers of colour are built up and the traditional geometric ajrakh patterns emerge.
Nights in the desert can be cold. When the sun goes down and the heat of the day leaves the earth, everything goes quiet. The air can be chilly, but nomadic pastoralists keep themselves warm with these robust and dramatic wool blankets.
We created these pieces with the desire to wear handwoven cloth all year round. We’ve layered handloom, naturally dyed cotton with an insulating flannel core—stitched row by row.
This Maiwa piece is the perfect oversized shirt. The versatility of wearing it open or closed makes it a Maiwa favourite and a great layering piece. The Shimoga Shirt stays true to what we believe about timeless sustainable design; it's easily worn year round.
This playful yet elegant yarn is handmade by a group of women in a village in Bengal, India. The women developed this idea because they hand weave cloth and thought it would fun to incorporate sequins into their weaving process for shawls and saris.
These blankets are handwoven by master weavers of Kashmir Loom using handspun pashmina combed from the Changra goats that live in the high altitudes of Northern India.
Ajrakh is a traditional block printing technique. It is also one of our favourite ways to achieve pattern on cloth. For centuries, wooden blocks have been used to print eloquent geometric patterns on cotton. These patterns are timeless, revealing a remarkable play between figure and line.
