A Craft Archive Studio
STHĀYI
The unchangeable. The enduring. The archive.
STHĀYI is not a saree brand. It is a craft archive studio — an art practice that works in fabric. Every piece is a document. Every drop is a field study. Every photograph is a frame.
We archive India's GI-tagged craft traditions — Bandhani from Kutch, Ajrakh from Barmer — and offer them as collectable heirlooms. Not seasonal fashion. Not a catalogue. An enduring archive.
What We Stand For
01
GI-Tagged Origin
Every piece carries a geographical indication. Every craft is directly sourced from the region where it was born — never intermediated, never compromised.
02
Documented Craft
Each piece ships with its full provenance: artisan name, region, craft hours, dye process. Because the hours change how you feel about the price — without us ever having to justify it.
03
Natural & Chemical-Free
All dyes are natural or chemical-free. No synthetic shortcuts. The colours you receive are the colours of the earth, the plants, and the minerals of their origin.
The Field Studies
Field Study 001 — Kutch, Gujarat
Bandhani
The resist-dye tradition of Kutch — thousands of tiny knots tied by hand before the cloth is immersed in natural dye. Each point of resistance becomes a flower, a dot, a constellation. A Bandhani dupatta can carry over 100,000 individual knots. The hands that tie them have been doing so for generations.
We work directly with master craftspeople in Anjar and Bhuj, ensuring every piece is documented with the artisan's name, their village, and the hours it took.
Field Study 002 — Barmer, Rajasthan
Ajrakh
A double-sided resist-print tradition that takes up to 16 separate processes before a piece is complete. Indigo, madder, natural mordants, river water. Ajrakh is not printed — it is built, layer by layer, over days. The geometry that emerges carries centuries of Islamic and Hindu artistic interchange.
Our Ajrakh pieces are sourced exclusively from the Khatri community of Barmer, the oldest and most technically rigorous practitioners of the craft.
The Studio
Anusha Singhania
Director of Photography & Co-Founder
A DOP with over 8 years of experience in the film industry. Anusha brings the eye of a documentarian to every STHĀYI field study — treating each craft tradition as a subject worthy of the same rigor as cinema.
Preeti Venkatesh
Creative Director & Co-Founder
Over a decade in fashion, wearing many hats. Preeti is the curatorial force behind STHĀYI — the one who decides which crafts enter the archive, which artisans we document, and how the world encounters each piece.
The Archive Promise
"The website is a document, not a store. You walk in, you understand what this world is — and then, if it feels right, you buy something."
Enter The Archive