mellow matters

In this episode, we sit down with Hibiscus Heroes founder Sowmya Parameswaran to trace the personal and philosophical journey behind one of India’s most thoughtful plant-based clothing studios. Sowmya shares her early years in Bangalore, her formative education at NIFT, and the experiences that shaped her understanding of craft, textiles, and responsibility. From documenting village crafts as a st...

In this episode, we sit down with Bidisha Samantaray , the co-founder of LAL Design Studio , an independent block printing and textile studio based in Pondicherry. Bidisha shares the story of how Lal began as a mother daughter journey across India, grew into a space that celebrates traditional craft, and eventually became a studio creating small batch garments with original wood block prints. We t...

This week, mellow matters drifts south-west to the palm-lined streets of Panjim, Goa, where partners in life and craft Sonja & Sachin welcome us into their seafront apartment and slow-morning coffee ritual before the studio bell rings at ten. Their venture, LaFabrica Craft , began with a single sheet of paper and an audacious question: could everyday packaging be re-imagined as origami-like ob...

In our very first episode of mellow matters , we travel to the quiet hills of Meghalaya, India, to meet Iba Mallai—the thoughtful founder of the women-led collective behind our handmade Eri silk shawls.  Iba shares how she left a busy, unfulfilling corporate job in Bangalore and returned home to Umden, known as the Eri Silk Village. There, she reconnected with the traditional art of weaving and bu...