Introducing: The hand-loomed Madras shirt
This is our final product this summer, a Madras shirt hand-woven in the traditional manner in Chennai, and then hand sewn in Naples. It’s pure cotton, and has a striking but quite sophisticated check we first used on linen shirts five years ag...
Introducing: The hand-loomed Madras shirt
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Direct from us? Yes, that is how most people do it. You can put the maker down as the recipient and just put your name also in the address as a reference - then let them know it's coming...
How the Permanent Style Madras was woven
On Friday we’ll be launching our hand-woven Madras shirts, a collaboration we’re really proud of - both because of the people we visited in Chennai that made it so authentically, and because of the unique comfort and quality of the cloth...
How the Permanent Style Madras was woven
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The cloth is on sale here Heath (though it is currently sold out - more is coming soon)...
How hand-loomed madras is made: A visit to OMTC, ...
We’ve written about Original Madras Trading Company before. Manish did an article last year explaining the history of the company - including its much larger manufacturing parent - and how it has resurrected hand-loomed madras in India. But t...
How hand-loomed madras is made: A visit to OMTC, ...
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Thanks Simon...
My Favourite Madras Shirt: Original Madras Tradin...
By Manish Puri In 1973, Ranjit Shah left his hometown of Madras (now Chennai) carrying a suitcase full of cloth swatches and emigrated to New York City. Within a few years, he’d established Original Madras Trading Company (OMTC) on West 38th S...
My Favourite Madras Shirt: Original Madras Tradin...
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I think you'll have to ask them I'm afraid Will, sorry...
