Chandni Bagh Wash Bag

Chandni means moonlight. And this is exactly what a moonlit garden looks like rendered in cloth.
The jaal here is a dense flowering vine, large open blooms and broad leaves travelling across a white ground in deep black ink. The effect is immediate and total. Where most block prints use colour to carry the eye, this one uses contrast alone. Black and white, no middle ground, the pattern reading with the same force from across the room as it does up close.
Sanganer's finest printing has always been its outline work, patterns where the precision of the line is everything because there is no colour to soften an imprecise edge. The flowers on this cloth are drawn in black with a clarity that holds across the entire surface, each petal and leaf outlined with the confidence of a hand that has spent years cutting and pressing these blocks. Multiple blocks, printed in careful sequence, each one adding detail over the last until the vine covers every inch of ground.
The white is the cotton itself, undyed. The black is printed over it in passes, the jaal building from a single outline block into something that, up close, has the density and intricacy of an engraving.
Once printed, the cotton is hand-quilted along vertical channels for structure and a soft padded weight, then bound with a hand-woven black and white stripe trim. A gold zip runs across the top, finished with a black tassel pull.
The wash bag that looks like a page from a botanical sketchbook pressed onto cotton.

Every Chandni Bagh wash bag is printed and stitched by hand, so no two are quite the same. The high contrast of black on white makes any variation in the printing immediately visible, which is also what makes it honest. You may notice a flower where the black outline sits fractionally outside its neighbour, or a leaf where the block pressed a little more heavily on one side. The white ground may carry a very faint warmth from piece to piece. This is outline printing at its most demanding, and the hand behind it shows in every line.

• Wipe clean with a damp cloth for daily care
• Machine-wash on a gentle cycle in cool water
• Wash separately the first time, colours may release slightly
• Air-dry away from direct sunlight
• Steam or iron on a low heat if needed

UK delivery

• Standard delivery — £5.95, free over £60. Royal Mail tracked, 3–5 working days.
• Express delivery — £7.95. Royal Mail tracked, 1–2 working days.
• Order before 2pm Monday–Friday for same-day dispatch. Orders placed after 2pm, or over the weekend, dispatch the next working day.

International delivery

We ship worldwide. Rates and timeframes calculated at checkout based on your destination. Customs duties and import taxes are not included and are the customer's responsibility.

Returns

You have 14 days from receiving your order to return it. Items must be unused, in their original condition and packaging.

For change-of-mind returns, we email you a Royal Mail returns link — no printer needed, no postage to pay upfront. The cost of return postage is deducted from your refund.

For faulty, damaged or incorrect items, we cover return postage in full and refund your original delivery charge. Sale items are final.

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Every piece in our collection is sourced directly from artisan workshops we know by name. We pay fairly, we visit often, and we believe the people who make a thing should be valued as much as the thing itself. We use natural dyes wherever possible, plastic-free packaging in every order, and we donate a share of every sale back into the craft communities we work with.

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