How Bhadhram pieces are made
Our plant-dyed textiles start as plant-based cloth, coloured by hand with natural dyes, and every garment is made only after you have ordered it.
The cloth
Our cloth comes from plant-based fibres: cotton, hemp, linen and blends, and also Tencel and Bemberg (cupro), which are made from plant cellulose. It is woven in India’s weaving hubs, in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Bengal. Each piece’s page names its cloth and the percentage of each fibre in any blend.
Natural dyes
We do not dye the cloth ourselves. It is dyed by hand with natural dyes, by our partners in India. The colour comes from flowers, leaves, bark, fruit peel and roots: indigo, sappanwood, madder, catechu, henna, myrobalan and turmeric. Some of the cloth is eco-printed by hand with teak leaves. One blouse is dyed with lac, which comes from an insect, and some cloth is left undyed.
The cloth is dried in the sun, so one dye batch takes about 30 to 45 days, depending on the season. The shade can shift from batch to batch, so your piece may differ slightly from the photographs. Each dyed piece’s page says what coloured its cloth.
Made in Keralam, after you book it
The pieces are carefully sewn by local artisans at an independent stitching unit in Keralam.
Each piece is made just for you, so we keep no stock. When you pre-book a piece you tell us your size, and the piece is made after that. When we reply, we’ll gladly tell you how long yours will take.