The textile module. Natural-fibre altar cloths, seats and sacred threads in the colours classical practice prescribes.
The textiles that cover the altar, seat the worshipper, and are worn during worship - and the sacred threads that bind the ritual. Natural fibre throughout. Ritual colours as classical practice prescribes - red for shakti invocations, yellow for Lakshmi and Saraswati, white for Shiva and ancestral rites.
Cotton woven to the weight and drape the altar requires. The sacred thread spun of cotton, not polyester blend. Ritual colours achieved through natural dyes where possible. Nothing that will melt if the diya meets it.
Polyester "silk-look" altar cloth. Chemical-dyed asan mats. Nylon mauli. Anything that will melt if the diya meets it.
Households maintaining a daily altar, pandits preparing the vedi for ceremonies, temples requiring standing altar textiles.
Vastra is available through our partner pandits and retail partners. Siliguri is our first city.
Every element in Vastra has a farmer, a herb, or a hand behind it - most of them in the Darjeeling foothills. Read the Provenance story →
