The Haveli Button Down
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The Handwork
The Haveli Button Down
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Handwoven
Handloom cloth is made by hand from end to end. Yarn is wound onto the warp beam of a pit loom, the khaddi, and woven one pick at a time: the weaver opens the shed with the treadles, throws the shuttle across and beats each row into place with the reed. The slubs and small shifts in tension stay in the cloth. That is the point.
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Hand Block-Printed
Block printing is one of the oldest ways of putting pattern on cloth in South Asia. A drawing is transferred to a block of seasoned wood and carved by hand, so the pattern stands proud of the surface. Charged with dye and pressed down, the block leaves one repeat. Set side by side, impression after impression, the repeats become the cloth. Every piece is printed with natural dyes, and every block is carved by hand, so no two blocks are the same.
The Haveli Button Down is the upper half of the haveli language — the same blue khaddar, the same block print, the same ajrak detailing, translated into a shirt silhouette that can be worn alone or as a set with the cargo pants below. It carries the courtyard inside it.
On a blue khaddar base, a composed block print runs across the body of the shirt — designed as a single composition rather than a repeating tile. Hand-dyed ajrak patches sit within the block-printed field, the two printing traditions occupying the same surface in deliberate coexistence. Ajrak detailing continues at the cuffs and collar edges. A screen-printed RASTAH logo patch anchors the chest.
The composed block print means this shirt is not symmetrical — it has a specific visual structure that was designed for these exact surfaces, for the way a button-down shirt moves and folds and opens. That specificity is audible when you look closely: the print isn't wallpaper applied to a shirt shape, it is a designed image that belongs to this particular object.
The haveli button down is the kind of shirt that gets worn to places worth going. Dressed up or down, with the cargo pants or with something simpler — it carries the craft and the story wherever it ends up.
- Fabric
- Blue khaddar
- Care
- Dry clean only
Features
- Composed block print across body
- Hand-dyed ajrak patches and cuff/collar detailing
- Screen-printed RASTAH logo patch at chest
- Button-front closure
- Coordinates with The Haveli Cargo Pants
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The craft · Khaddi
کھڈیWoven pick by pick.
Cotton is warped onto a wooden khaddi and woven one throw of the shuttle at a time. The slubs and small shifts in the weave stay in the cloth. That's the point.
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