Made by two, loop by loop
No warehouse, no machines, no third pair of hands. Just a studio in Mumbai, a wall of cotton, and however long a piece takes to be right.
“We only ever wanted to make things people would keep.”
ChicThread started on a balcony in Bandra with two hooks, a carton of leftover cotton and a stubborn idea: that something made slowly, by hand, for one person, is worth more than a hundred of the same thing made for nobody.
We still make everything ourselves. Every piece is counted, blocked and finished at the same table it was started on — and the note in your box is written by whoever stitched it.
— Anchal & Astha, founders
Anchal
Patterns & designDraws every piece on paper first, then argues with the yarn until the two agree. Twelve years with a hook, and still counts stitches out loud.
Astha
Making & dispatchRuns the making table and the parcel table. If a piece leaves the studio, it has been held, checked and packed with a note written by hand.
How a piece happens
No factory, no machine, no second table. Everything between a cone of cotton and the box on your doorstep — photographed as it actually looks, mid-mess.
Every piece goes through all of it, in this order. Nothing skips a step, which is why an order takes days rather than hours.