Hand-woven cotton, block-printed across two months under the right sun. Then the print retires — for good.
We don't drop a spring line or a festive line. We open an edition — a single print, ten pieces, made over two months — and when the last one finds a home, the print is retired.
Dyed in iron and madder root, block-printed in Bagru over five passes — one block per colour. Warm brick and rust across hand-spun cotton, set under the April sun.
Shop edition 28 →True indigo, vat dyed. The deeper blue comes from the third dip, the day after. Khadi and hand-spun cotton, anti-fit, made to be belted or left to fall.
Shop edition 27 →Edition numbers travel with each garment, written by hand. When a print sells through, it is retired — never re-run.
Padmalaxmi is named for the founder's two grandmothers — Padma and Lakshmi — who draped their saris with a quiet rebellion: contrast blouses where tradition expected matching ones. The cloth was always part of the house.
The decision came in a Goa pub in 2016. I want to do this, but I don't have a fashion degree. Her husband answered: the biggest designers don't either. If you have the eye, you have the craft.
Read Seema's story →"I've worn it through every kind of week — heavy meals, bad days, all of it — and it never once made me think about my body."Anjali · Bangalore
"Three years on, the indigo has only deepened. Nobody I've met owns the same print. That's the whole point, isn't it."Meera · London
"My mother is seventy and wears the madder kurta like it was made for her. It was — it fits all of us."Ritu · Delhi
We open roughly six editions a year. No noise in between — just a quiet note when the next print is on the loom, so you can claim one of ten.