Swatches
Feel the cloth before you commit. Five swatches from our ten-fabric library, paired with a tailor’s measuring tape, posted to your door — so you may meet each material in your own hands before commissioning a garment.
What is in the kit
- Five fabric swatches of your choice
- One tailor’s measuring tape, 150 cm
- A printed origin & care card for each cloth
The Ten Fabrics
Each cloth is woven by hand by our partner artisans in India. Tap any fabric to read its full story — origin, making, hand, and care.
Handspun Khadi
Cotton hand-spun on a charkha and handwoven in India. Soft, breathable, alive with the slubs of human-spun yarn.
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Organic Khadi
The same hand-spun, handwoven cloth, woven with organic cotton grown without synthetic pesticides or fertilisers.
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Matka Peace Silk
An ahimsa silk from West Bengal. Hand-spun from broken mulberry fibres, with the sericin gum left intact — closer to fine linen than to satin.
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Mulberry Silk
The benchmark silk. Reeled from Bombyx mori cocoons fed only on mulberry leaves. Deep lustre, fluid drape, quiet strength.
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Linen
Woven from the flax plant. One of the oldest cloths humans have made. Cool, crisp, breathable; wrinkles with intention.
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Merino Wool
Wool fine enough to wear next to the skin. Temperature-regulating, odour-resistant, slow to wrinkle. Among the most useful natural fibres ever bred.
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Tussar Silk
A wild silk from forest silkworms in Eastern India. Honey-gold in colour, textured, with an uneven living sheen.
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Ketia Peace Silk
A rare Bengal cloth woven from the broken fibres of hatched Tussar cocoons. Zero-waste by design. Substantial, textured, hard to find.
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Tussar-Muga Silk Blend
A handwoven blend of Tussar and Muga silks from India. The wild golden lustre of Muga over the substantial, textured hand of Tussar — the qualities of two rare silks in a single cloth.
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Eri Silk
Peace silk from the Samia ricini moth of Northeast India. Warm like wool, breathable like cotton, with a soft matte hand.
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Kits ship within two business days, anywhere in Australia. The kit is a standalone purchase — not credited against future commissions. What you are paying for is time with the cloth.