Craft · Kolhapur, Maharashtra
Thousands of ends, one cloth.
About 120 Toyota air-jet looms, weaving around 1.2 million metres of fabric every month.
The mill
Weaving at Kolhapur.
Our fabric is woven in Kolhapur, in southern Maharashtra. The mill runs about 120 Toyota air-jet looms and weaves around 1.2 million metres a month.
An air-jet loom carries each weft thread across the warp on a jet of compressed air rather than on a shuttle or a rapier — the fastest way there is to weave plain, even cloth.
- Toyota air-jet looms at Kolhapur
- ~120
- Metres of fabric woven a month
- ~1.2M
- Weaving and exporting since
- 1998
Before the loom
Every design starts as a warp.
A shirting warp can hold several thousand ends, each one in its place in the stripe or check. The order of colours in the warp is set before the loom ever starts; the weft completes the pattern.
That is why a yarn-dyed check is decided in the studio and not at the end of the line — and why we keep every construction we weave on record.
Checked by eye
Cloth is judged in the hand and under the glass.
Weight, width and construction are measured; handle, lustre and evenness are judged by people who have looked at cloth for years. Both matter to a buyer who is putting their name on the garment.
Our quality management system is certified to ISO 9001.
From yarn to cloth
Four steps, one standard.
01
Design
The weave and the order of colours are drawn in the studio, to the thread.
02
Warp
Thousands of ends wound in that order onto a beam, then drawn through the loom.
03
Weave
On one of about 120 Toyota air-jet looms at Kolhapur, the weft completing the pattern.
04
Inspect
Woven cloth checked for weight, width and faults against the approved sample.
How a design starts, in the studio · What we weave, in the collection
The export desk
Send us a construction and we will tell you if we can weave it.
We reply from Mumbai, Monday to Saturday, 10:00–19:00 IST.