Teal Gulshan Makeup Bag

Sanganer sits on the banks of the Amanishah Nullah, a river that has run with dye for so long the bed itself is stained. The town has been printing cloth since the Mughal period and the jaal pattern, this dense flowering vine that covers every inch of the fabric without leaving a centimetre of ground untouched, is one of its oldest signatures.
Jaal means net or lattice in Hindi. The name describes the structure underneath the flowers, the invisible grid that keeps the vines in order as they travel across the cloth. A printer working a jaal pattern may use four or five separate blocks on a single piece of fabric, each one adding a layer. The teal ground first. Then the vine. Then the flowers. Then the detail. Each pass must register precisely with the last or the whole thing falls apart. It is slow work and it requires a particular kind of patience.
The gulshan, the flower at the heart of this pattern, is a full open bloom with petals that catch the coral dye and hold it. The golden stems and olive leaves are printed separately, in the gaps the flower block left behind.
Once printed, the cotton is hand-quilted along vertical channels for a soft padded weight, then bound with a hand-woven red and white stripe trim. A self-fabric tassel finishes the zip, weighted with our small metal tiger.
A bag that looks like it came from a garden that has been growing for four hundred years.

Every Teal Gulshan bag is printed and stitched by hand, so no two are quite the same. The jaal pattern uses multiple blocks in sequence, and the slight variation in registration from one pass to the next is part of what gives the cloth its handmade character. You may notice a flower a little deeper in colour, a vine that shifts a fraction from its neighbour, a leaf that catches more pigment on one side than the other. This is not a flaw in the printing. It is evidence of the process, and it is what separates this bag from anything a machine could make.

• 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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