Four children on a cream backdrop in Zouhi plant-fibre kidswear — a purple shirt, a yellow frock, a pale blue co-ord and an orange bird-print shirt.
Four children on cream, one with her arms raised above her head, wearing Zouhi pieces in purple, yellow, pale blue and orange.
Three children standing on a cream backdrop in Zouhi shirts — purple, pale blue and orange bird print — with sunglasses.
Primrose · Edition Two — girl in a deep scarlet eucalyptus fibre frock holding coloured balls, showing the tiered ruffle bodice

Slowly made.Quietly worn.

Heirloom kidswear from a small atelier outside Kochi. Plant fibres, hand-finished, made in numbered editions that are never remade.

Enter Almost Spring

Three ways in.

The current edition, and the two wardrobes it sits beside.

Three children standing on a cream backdrop in Zouhi shirts — purple, pale blue and orange bird print — with sunglasses.

Almost Spring

Edition One. Three designs, fifty of each, numbered by hand. When the fiftieth is sent, the design retires.

Enter the edition

Girls

Frocks, co-ords and festive sets in orange fibre, bamboo silk and kasavu cotton.

Discover

Boys

Shirts, kurtas and mundu sets in sugar cane, orange and corn fibre.

Discover

Everything we makebegins as a plant.

Seven of them. Sugar cane pressed from mill waste. Eucalyptus spun in a closed loop. Orange fibre pulled from the pulp a juicer throws away. Each chosen for one reason — what it does against a child's skin in forty degrees.

01 · Mill waste

Sugar cane

After the sugar is taken the stalk is burnt. We buy the rest — pulped, spun, as cool as cotton and as soft as silk.

Mill by-product

02 · Closed loop

Eucalyptus

Processed in a closed loop where almost all the solvent is recovered. Silk-like, biodegradable, and hollow, so air keeps moving.

Closed loop

03 · Field waste

Corn

Plant-based, naturally hypoallergenic, silk-like to the touch. Gentle enough for the most sensitive skin.

Hypoallergenic

04 · Juice press

Orange fibre

Spun from the pulp left after pressing. The rarest cloth in the house — and the only fibre permitted a colour of its own.

Citrus · reserved

05 · Leaf

Pineapple

The leaf is usually burnt after harvest. Processed into Piñatex it is durable, supple, entirely plant-based. Not in a piece yet.

Not yet in a piece

06 · Grove

Bamboo silk

Broken down and re-spun into a thread that drapes like silk. Naturally antibacterial, with nothing applied afterwards.

Antibacterial

07 · Temple flowers

Rose petal

Offerings that would be composted or given to the river. Still early — nothing carries it yet. You will see it soon, in something small.

In development

Folded Pale Sky Co-ord pieces stacked, with clusters of crystal florets set by hand into the pale blue sugar cane cloth.

The atelier

A small workshopoutside Kochi.

Everything is cut, sewn and finished in one place, by people we know by name. The crystal florets on the Pale Sky Co-ord are set one at a time. The pearls at Snowdrop's hem are sewn individually — not glued, not machine-set — and will outlast the dress. This is the part that does not scale, and it is the reason the editions are small.

Inside the atelier

The numbered edition

01

The number is decided before the first stitch

Sometimes fifty, sometimes fewer. It depends on the cloth we could get and how long the finishing takes — never on how well it might sell.

02

Each piece is numbered by hand

A cotton tag is sewn into the side seam and the number written on it by the finisher who completed the piece.

03

When the last is sent, the design retires

We do not restock, and we do not reissue in another colour next season. The pattern goes into a drawer and stays there.

04

The price never moves

The price on the first number is the price on the last. We have never marked a piece down.

Verified by others,not by us.

What each one covers
Organic, field to finish
Organic, field to finish Certifies the cotton as organic and audits every stage after it. Cotton pieces only — Snowdrop carries all four.
Tested for harmful substances
Tested for harmful substances Every component — cloth, thread, tag, cord — against the strictest limits the standard sets for children's wear.
Traceable to the makers
Traceable to the makers A unique product ID shows you the countries and production stages your piece passed through.
Better farms, on cotton
Better farms, on cotton Water, soil and pesticide practice at farm level. Cotton pieces only — and we say so on the ones it doesn't cover.