Le Banjara Envelope Clutch बंजारा
Le Banjara Envelope Clutch बंजारा
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DESCRIPTION
-Only 20 hand-embroidered by Banjara women
- 65 hours of Shisha mirror-work
- A 1000-year-old nomadic craft
- Hand-loomed cotton with vintage glass mirrors
- Size: 28 × 18 cm, 350 grams
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Origin
The Banjara are a community whose ancestors moved across the Indian subcontinent for centuries — salt traders, cattle drovers, caravan-keepers — carrying their craft on their backs in the form of bags, blankets, and dowry textiles. Their embroidery is layered, dense, glittering with mirrors and shells: every stitch a small declaration of where they have been. This piece was made in a settled Banjara community in Kutch, where the migration finally rested.
Process
A Banjara cloth begins as cotton hand-loomed by women in their own homes. Tiny circles of vintage mercury-glass — shisha — are caught in place with a web of chain stitches that hold the mirror without piercing it. Cowrie shells, once used as currency along the trade routes, are sewn at the seams. Each clutch is a small map of a community that lived in motion for five hundred years.
Care
Spot clean only. The mirrors are vintage and individually set — if one shifts, do not pull; take the bag to a tailor with embroidery experience. Keep cowrie shells away from perfume and oils.
