Our Craft
In every Indian home there are fabrics too beautiful to wear
and too loved to discard.
A wedding Banarasi. A length of silk. An heirloom weave kept folded in a trunk. Teaky was founded on a simple idea: that these textiles deserve to be seen, not stored. We frame them — in wood, under glass — into objects for the table, the desk, the home.
The textile
Woven by hand in Banaras.
Each panel begins on a pit loom in Uttar Pradesh — a square of handwoven silk or brocade, gold thread on a coloured ground. The weave is unhurried; a single panel can take a weaver a full afternoon. We buy directly from the weavers' cooperative, never through a middleman.
The frame
Cut, fitted and finished by hand.
From the loom, the panel travels to our workshop. The walnut is cut to a rebate; the glass is set with paper-thin felt between wood and silk; the corners are mitred and rubbed with oil. Nothing in this house is rushed. Nothing is machine-finished.
How we work
A few quiet rules.
- No middlemen. We buy textiles directly from the weavers and pay them above market.
- No machine finishes. Every frame is cut, sanded and oiled by hand in our workshop.
- No outsourcing. If your piece is being made, one of three people in our workshop is making it.
- No rush. A keepsake box takes ten days. A customised tray takes four weeks. We say so plainly.
Send us a fabric of your own.
A wedding Banarasi, a length of heirloom silk you cannot bring yourself to part with — we will frame it. Write to the atelier.