✦ Artisan craft · India
The craft of
Sujani
Bharuch, Rajasthan
The craft
Two weavers, one loom, a million stories.
The craft arrived in Bharuch around 1860. The stories about how vary - one says a Bharuch native learned it from a fellow inmate in an Andaman jail and brought it home; another tells of a king sensitive to scent who commissioned the first one, a quilt soft enough to hold rose petals. Both stories live in the same place.
There are only two families in the world who are still practicing this craft. In 2024, the craft was awarded a Geographical Indication tag from the Indian government.
The Sujani craft revival is here
How it's made
The process
Five hundred years of craft, pressed into every inch of cloth
WEAVING
Two weavers sit on opposite sides of an 8-shaft handloom, pass a shuttle called a Cutla between them, and slip raw cotton into the gaps between the two cloths as they form
MATERIALS
The cotton inside isn't sewn in - it's woven in, pocket by pocket, while the cloth itself is still on the loom.
THE LOOM
The whole quilt comes off the loom finished. That is Sujani. Every Sujani piece in our collection comes from one of those looms. Two weavers, one shuttle, no stitches.
DONE
What comes off the loom is art made from the hands of two masterful artisans.
SUJANI SNAPSHOTS
Made by hand. Made to last.
