Wider cloth to wrap and drape — soft indigo grounds and Thai mudmee ikat patterns, each shawl the width the loom allows and the length the weaver chose. A handwoven shawl or wrap carries more of the maker's story than a scarf: more thread tied and dyed, more passes through the vat, more hours at the loom. It falls beautifully around the shoulders and only softens with age.
Honest notes on natural dye, handwork and care — from people who know each maker.
Mudmee is the Thai ikat technique: the weaver ties and dyes the threads in a pattern before weaving, so the design emerges from the dyed yarn itself. The soft, slightly blurred edges of a mudmee motif are the hallmark of true hand-tied ikat — impossible to fake with a print.
Hand-wash cool with a gentle soap, no bleach, and dry flat or draped in the shade. Wash naturally-dyed pieces separately, especially at first. A shawl treated this way holds its colour and drape for many years.
Most are woven or dyed once you reserve them, by a single artisan, so allow roughly three to four weeks before it ships. Because each wrap is made individually, small variations in width, length and tone are natural and expected.
Made to order, ships in three to four weeks. Behind that simple line is the rhythm of real handwork — dye that must ferment, thread that must be tied, and hands that can only move so fast.
Read the storyPlenty of things are sold as 'handmade' that a machine could have made in an afternoon. Here is the promise behind Made with Jai — natural materials, real handwork, and made-to-order honesty, with nothing dressed up as more than it is.
Read the storyIn mudmee — Thailand's weft ikat — the pattern is tied and dyed into the thread before a single row is woven. Here is how a resist-dyed cloth comes to be, and why its soft-edged blur can't be faked.
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