Give more than you take.

लेन-देन means give and take.

A Hindi phrase, said in the house I grew up in as a reminder: give a little more than you take. It is the name of this house, and the rule it runs on.

The karigar who weaves the cloth is named on the piece he made — his name, his town, the days he spent at the loom — and he keeps more than 45 percent of what the piece costs to make.

A weaver once pulled out a morning of work over one slipped thread nobody would have found. He said they would know. That is a generous standard to be handed.

A town in India, and the cloth named after it.

Chanderi is a small town in central India, and also the name of the cloth made there — in the way Harris Tweed is named for its islands. Very fine silk and cotton, woven light enough to hold up and see through.

It is made on a handloom, in the front room of a family home. One person, one loom, one length at a time, over days we count and print on the label.

Eight pieces, being made now.

Every piece is cut to your measurements, so it fits you rather than a size chart. Nothing is cut until it is yours.

Worn anywhere, with anything. Shipped worldwide.