AS FEATURED IN WORLD OF INTERIORS & HOUSE & GARDEN
OUR BAMBOO CHIK BLINDS ARE HAND MADE TO ORDER IN A CHOICE OF STITCHED DESIGNS & COLOURWAYS. THEY WORK BEAUTIFULLY IN BOTH TRADITIONAL & CONTEMPORARY INTERIORS ... IN THE CITY, COUNTRYSIDE OR AT THE BEACH. THINK COLONIAL, DIFFUSED SUNLIGHT ...
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PROTECTIVE STONES & VINTAGE AMULETS
TRACY DESIGNS WITH FABULOUS & UNUSUAL STONES & VINTAGE PROTECTION AMULETS DEPICTING GODS & GODDESSES SOURCED ON HER TRAVELS IN INDIA. THESE ARE HAND CRAFTED, DELICATE, UNIQUE, YET AFFORDABLE JEWELLERY PIECES SET IN 18 CARAT GOLD VERMEIL.
19TH & EARLY 20TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURAL DOORS, PILLARS DOORWAY MIRRORS & FURNITURE
FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS, OPIUM HAS SPECIALISED IN SOURCING ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUES & COLONIAL & MARRIAGE DOWRY FURNITURE FROM THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT. EVERY PIECE IS PERSONALLY SELECTED BY OPIUM'S OWNER, TRACY KITCHING AND CHOSEN FOR ITS AESTHETIC APPEAL AGED PATINA & FINE CRAFTMANSHIP.
HAND BLOCK PRINT TEXTILES - TO WEAR & TO DECORATE THE HOME & GARDEN
A BEAUTIFUL COLLECTION OF CUSHIONS, BED QUILTS, FABRICS & GARDEN PARASOLS & OUR SLEEPWEAR COLLECTION OFFERS HAND BLOCKED KIMONO BATHROBES, KAFTANS, NIGHTIES & PYJAMAS FOR BOTH ADULTS & CHILDREN ALL MADE BY HAND IN JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN
Chikan Embroidery From Lucknow
On our very first buying trip more than 20 years ago, we visited Lucknow and a love affair with the exquisite chikan hand embroidery began. There are 32 different stitches and the embroidery is stitched on fine cotton, crepe silk & georgette fabrics to create kaftans, shirts and shawls. This fine embroidery work is created mostly by female artisans in Lucknow engaged by SEWA initiatives (self-employed women working largely from home, eligible for micro loans, so they can both work and raise their children).
Hand Block Print Cottons From Jaipur
In a similar tradition, hand block printing on fine cotton fabric has continued for hundreds of years in Jaipur, Rajasthan in home workshops using natural dyes. Hereditary carvers, mostly fathers and sons chisel designs traced onto teak wood blocks and families of printers then precisely print the designs by dipping the blocks into natural colour dyes and stamp them onto lengths of cotton stretched onto long tables. For Opium, the beautiful hand blocked fabrics are made into kimono bath robes, kaftans, nighties, pyjamas, shirts, boxer shorts and children's PJ's.
Keeping craft alive in India...
