Lucknow · Jaipur · Kolkata

Wear a piece of history

Handcrafted Indian textiles, threaded with heritage and designed for the world.

The House

Where heritage meets tomorrow

In the narrow lanes of Lucknow, where morning light falls through a hand-embroidered curtain, an artisan threads her needle with precision learned from her grandmother. Each stitch carries three hundred years of Chikankari.

Filora is the bridge between that courtyard and your wardrobe — between ancestral technique and contemporary design, between India's craft clusters and the world.

— Inspired by heritage, crafted for today

The Hands

Every piece has a face

Every Filora piece carries the name of the person who made it.

Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

Salma Begum

Master of bakhiya shadow work. She learned the stitch at eleven, sitting beside her grandmother at the adda frame, and has worked it every day since.

34 years at the frameBakhiya · Phanda · Jali
Her pieces →

Sanganer, Rajasthan

Ram Singh

Third-generation block printer. He carves his own teak blocks and mixes his own dye, working only in madder, indigo, turmeric and iron black.

3rd generationNatural dye only
His pieces →

The Stitches

Thirty-two ways to tell a story

Four of the thirty-two stitches of Chikankari. Open a card to see how it is made.


BakhiyaShadow work. Worked on the reverse of the fabric so the motif shows through as a soft, floating shade.

Worked entirely on the reverse. The density of thread shows through the cloth as a soft, shifting shade rather than a hard line.

Hours per motif
6–9
Difficulty
Advanced
PhandaA minute knot, no wider than a millet grain. Used for the centres of flowers and the eyes of birds.

Tight enough to hold its shape, small enough to disappear into the motif. The two demands pull against each other.

Hours per motif
4–6
Difficulty
Advanced
MurriThe rice stitch — a tiny elongated knot that catches the light. The hardest to work evenly.

A phanda drawn out into a grain of rice. Every grain must lie at the same angle.

Hours per motif
7–10
Difficulty
Master
JaliNet work. Threads are teased apart rather than cut, opening a lattice without ever breaking the cloth.

Threads are teased apart, never cut. The fabric stays continuous, which is why it survives washing.

Hours per motif
8–14
Difficulty
Master
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