Locally, the word gindi often refers to a ralli quilt itself, but I keep returning to the question: is gindi a regional variation of ginti (counting), reflecting the counted nature of the stitch, or simply a vernacular term for the same craft? I’ve updated the blog post with some new thoughts.

Today we are celebrating all the amazing women that are behind the Wenlin Studio project.

To start with each design in our collection, we first gather inspiration from our surroundings. Our favourite media to sketch our ideas and designs in the studio is gouache. We hand paint each design using gouache on acid free paper. To explore the relation between different embroidery stitches, we create embroidery mock-ups in our London studio with contemporary hand embroidery techniques. Those hand embroidered...