ODE TO FREEDOM
Limited, hand-printed textiles
Patterns carved in Transylvania —
printed by hand in India.
Produced slowly, in numbered editions,
from natural dyes and inherited craft.
Objects made to travel
where their maker could not.
From Transylvania to Ajrakhpur
The collection brings together two distinct craft traditions:
Transylvanian woodcarving and Indian hand-block printing.
Each textile is hand-printed in Ajrakhpur, Gujarat,
in the workshop of Sufiyan Ismail Khatri,
using natural dyes and techniques passed down through generations.
Production here is collaboration — not outsourced labour.
Materials and process
- 100% Gujarati cotton
- Hand-block printed
- Natural dyes
- Limited to 200 per colourway
- Numbered edition
Irregularities are not defects. They are evidence of the hand.
Ode to Freedom consists of ten patterns,
released slowly.
Each pattern forms the basis of a limited textile edition.
Once complete, it is not repeated.
Pattern I: Dream Compass
The first pattern released.
From this textile, a limited series of cushion covers was produced.
At the heart, a rose blooms — love, harmony, protection.
Four flowers extend outward, reaching the world, yet always anchored at the centre.
A motif of strength and courage, inherited and reimagined,
guiding the heart toward its own freedom.
More than a cushion
This is not an object for everyone.
It was never meant to be.
It is for those who recognize
that some things cost more
because they refuse shortcuts.
What these textiles carry
Livelihoods sustained through craft.
The land respected through natural dyeing.
Two traditions carried forward.
Freedom, after all, is not the absence of structure — but the creation of new ones.
– Collection philosophy –