The Nomad Long Coat
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The Handwork
The Nomad Long Coat
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Hand Block-Printed
Block printing is one of the oldest ways of putting pattern on cloth in South Asia. A drawing is transferred to a block of seasoned wood and carved by hand, so the pattern stands proud of the surface. Charged with dye and pressed down, the block leaves one repeat. Set side by side, impression after impression, the repeats become the cloth. Every piece is printed with natural dyes, and every block is carved by hand, so no two blocks are the same.
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Hand-Embroidered Details
Kadhai is embroidery worked by hand. A design is traced onto the cloth as a khaka, the cloth is stretched taut on an adda or a hoop, and a karigar works it stitch by stitch in silk, cotton and metallic zari. The needle is guided by eye and by hand, so no two pieces carry quite the same line.
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Handwoven
Handloom cloth is made by hand from end to end. Yarn is wound onto the warp beam of a pit loom, the khaddi, and woven one pick at a time: the weaver opens the shed with the treadles, throws the shuttle across and beats each row into place with the reed. The slubs and small shifts in tension stay in the cloth. That is the point.
The nomad does not own the land. The nomad moves through it, takes what is needed, leaves with a knowledge of terrain that the settled person will never have. The Nomad Long Coat is a garment for that kind of movement: substantial enough for the journey, detailed enough to prove you were paying attention the whole time.
The base is wool — a material built for climate, for travel, for the kind of cold that settles in at elevation. A block print runs across the wool surface, setting the visual ground. Hand embroideries are then applied over the print — motifs worked into the surface, not added on top of it. Khaddar borders run the coat's edges, joined by hand-woven borders layered on top. A hand-embroidered border around the perimeter completes the silhouette, and hand-embellished details across the body add the final points of light and texture. The collar is finished by hand.
Wool and khaddar are both hand-labour materials. Building a coat from both, and then applying the further labour of block print, hand embroidery, and hand-woven border application, produces a garment that represents an extraordinary accumulation of craft time. It is designed to be the last coat you need — the one that justifies everything else in the wardrobe.
The nomad travels light but travels well. This coat is the exception to the first rule, the proof of the second.
- Fabric
- Wool base
- Care
- Dry clean only
Features
- All-over block print on shell
- Hand-applied embroideries over block print
- Khaddar border edges
- Hand-woven borders layered over khaddar
- Hand-embroidered perimeter border
- Hand-embellished body details
- Hand-finished collar
- Long coat silhouette
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The craft · Thappa
ٹھپہCarved in wood.
Pressed by hand.
Each motif is cut into a block of seasoned wood, charged with natural dye and pressed onto the cloth by eye, one impression at a time. Every block is carved by hand, so no two prints are the same.
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