Buddhi Batiks

Every craft has a place it comes from. For Buddhi, that place was Koswadiya. He found his inspiration there, and in time the village and the man became inseparable. A quiet love story, told in cloth.
Forty-four years ago, Indu became one of his customers. She is still here, now wearing his daughter’s work. In this conversation, she and Darshi return to the old days, to Buddhi, to Koswadiya, and to a craft that outlives the people who carry it because the people who carry it pass it on.
The closing film in our Fashion Revolution series. The whole point of slow fashion, in one room.
Darshi Keerthisena

We’ve always believed that when buying clothes to choose well, invest thoughtfully and make it last.

Fifteen years ago, Rashmi bought this Buddhi Batiks sari.

Years later, Darshi re-designed it into an osariya for her daughter Sahitra to wear to a wedding; the same Buddhi Batiks sari Sahi had promised herself, as a little girl, she’d wear one day.

A garment worn for two decades. Restyled, not replaced. Passed between two generations of one family and one designer who knows them both.

This is what slow fashion actually looks like.