The craft

From forest to your home.

Every Ghar piece travels through hands, colour, and days of patient repetition before it reaches you.

Step by step

How block printing works.

01 — Design

The pattern is born

A motif is sketched — a vine, a bloom, a geometric repeat. Every line is deliberate.

02 — Carve

Days of carving

The design is carved into teak by hand. One pattern can take up to 7 blocks — one per colour.

03 — Print

Pressed by hand

The inked block is pressed onto the cotton, colour by colour. Each impression is a human decision.

04 — To your home

Cut, stitched, sent

Each piece is cut, stitched with contrasting piping, inspected — then sent from India to the Netherlands.

"The slight imperfections in the print are not mistakes. They are the mark of a human hand on every piece."

From the workshop

Where the blocks live.

An artisan hand block printing fabric in the workshop
One block, one press, one breath at a time.
The rhythm of the workshop.
Dozens of hand-carved wooden printing blocks
Every pattern begins as carved teak.
An archive room of block print pattern books
Generations of patterns, kept like library books.
Carved border blocks laid side by side
Border blocks — the frames of every design.
A room full of carved wooden blocks and pattern archives
A floor of blocks, each one a design memory.
Examining a hand block printed cushion at a picnic in Amsterdam
400+
years of
block printing
heritage

Our makers

Meet our makers
the heart of
our collection.

Behind every Ghar piece is a community of artisan entrepreneurs across India — makers who own their workshops, their craft, and their price.

Our cotton comes directly from these makers, and every print is applied by hand by artisans whose names we know, with techniques passed down through generations. When you buy from Ghar, you support these communities directly — real people, fairly valued, with a stake in everything they create.

Grateful, always, to Karghewale for their support and partnership on this journey.

Makers with a stake

Every artisan owns their workshop, their production, and their price.

Upskilling artisan communities

Endangered textile skills, preserved for the next generation.

Transparent supply chain

We know every step from the artisan's workshop in India to your door.

Postcards from Ghar.

New collections, market dates, and stories from India — a little colour in your inbox, now and then.