Along our journey together these past seven years, my version of the ideal bandana has merged with yours. This newly revised cotton bandana is closer than ever to our shared ideals. I’ve achieved this through some adaptions of fabrication, printing, and finishing processes while finding the perfect partners to help us along the way.

In September 2022 I had the honor of visiting block printing artist Sufiyan Khatri at his home and studio.  Sufiyan is a 10th generation pratictioner of Ajrakh and he and his family have received esteemed international recognition for their craft.

If you are planning to go camping this summer (and you should!), may we suggest that you you carry along some bandanas? They hardly take up space and are supremely versatile in an outdoor camp setting. Ahead we have listed ten ways to use a bandana on a camping trip-

Enigmatic blue backdrops imprinted with detailed silhouettes in white- cyanotypes are instantly recognizable by their azure monochromatic palette that is at once haunting and inexplicably picturesque.  Cyanotype is one of the oldest photographic printing processes and is a striking blend of the precision of chemistry with the curiosity of art.

Shaivyya Gupta brings the eye of a fine artist and the soul of everyday Jaipur to her work as a textile designer, consultant and educator.  We caught up with her recently to take a deeper dive into her process and inspirations.

Our Rag Rope Hatbands are made in collaboration with long-time friend of Last Chance Textiles, Jessica Rives.  Jess is dedicated to the craft of upcycling with found and repurposed material.

I want to share with you some of my family's antique braided rag-rugs.  These were made by my great grandmother's from both sides of my family tree.

In celebration of International Womxn’s Day, I’d like to take you on a journey to the river town Maheshwar, India which I had the pleasure of visting last February.

A step-by-step folk art tutorial.

In February of 2020 I had the honor of visiting the workshop of a master leheriya artisan. Mr Neelgar’s family has been practicing the Rajasthani craft of leheriya for four generations.

I like the idea one cloth bearing opposite characteristics simultaneously. Especially appealing is when this duality extends the versatility of an item. With this theme in mind, I began to look for more cases of textile double-dealing.

I’m continually fascinated by handmade textile’s ability to link cultures and tell a story about our human history. In studying textile history, I often find surprising links and commonalities that are seemingly worlds apart. Such is the case with the iconic American bandana and the ancient Indian craft of bandhani tie-dye.