सूत्र
The formula is the fabric.
सूत्र
One word, two meanings
Sutra means thread: the fibre a garment is actually made of. It also means formula: a principle compressed until nothing spare is left. We took both literally. The thread is the product, the formula is how we arrive at it.
तप
Cut, trained in, cut again
Every pattern goes onto a body and gets trained in, then comes back with notes. The seam that chafed at kilometre four. The waistband that rolled under a squat. Then it gets cut again. That loop is slow and expensive, and it is the only part of this that cannot be faked.
मान
Two pieces is arithmetic
Not modesty. We would rather ship two garments that survived the loop than twelve that skipped it. Everything is made in India, by people we can call, in quantities we can stand behind.
Two blades in rotational symmetry: a thread doubling back on itself, and the loop the pattern goes through before we ship it.
Wear the formula.
Shop the dropHow it is made
The loop, in five stages
The fourth stage is the one most brands skip.
- रेखा
Draw the pattern
A block is drafted to a real body, not a size chart. Every seam is placed where the load actually goes.
- सूत्र
Knit the cloth
Mills in Tiruppur and Ludhiana. We specify gauge, gsm and recovery, then reject the lots that miss.
- तप
Train in it
The sample goes onto a body and into real sessions. Notes come back: the seam that chafed at kilometre four, the waistband that rolled under a squat.
- छेद
Cut it again
Then the pattern changes and the loop restarts. Eleven times for the tee. This is the slow, expensive part, and the only one that cannot be faked.
- अंत
Sew and finish
Flatlock throughout, bar-tacked at the stress points, finished in quantities we can stand behind.
Construction
What the numbers mean
- Weight
- Heavy enough to hold its shape through a session, light enough that it never sits wet against you.
- Stretch
- Elastane in both directions, so the fabric follows a deep hinge instead of fighting it and springing back distorted.
- Side
- Nothing running down the flank on the leggings. No seam is the only way to guarantee no rub over a long session.
- Origin
- Knit, cut and sewn in India, in quantities small enough that we can call the people who made it.
180GSM
4WAY
0SEAM
INMADE