Sona - Vintage Banjara bag

• Hand embroidered cotton, mirror work and cowrie shell trim.
• Vintage, 1970s.
• As with any genuine vintage piece, there's wear consistent with its age - this isn't a flaw, it's fifty years of a life lived.
• Wide - 44cm.
• Deep (base and sides) - 18cm.
• High - 19cm.
• Strap length 84cm.
• Full drop.

Made by the nomadic Banjara women of Rajasthan, using needlecraft techniques stitched down through generations - centuries old, not decades. mirrors sewn in to catch the light and ward off evil spirits. cowrie shells along the edges for prosperity. Clothes like this were traditionally worked into a dowry bag, made by a woman for her own future. No two are ever the same - the Banjara believe perfection invites pride, so a little imperfection is always left in, deliberately. and then there's the imperfection age added on top of that - a loose thread here, a mirror missing there. We wouldn't smooth it out if we could. sona has fifty years on her already. she'll outlast us both.

Worn cross body or long on the shoulder. let her be the only loud thing you're wearing - plain linen, a white shirt, bare shoulders. She doesn't need help

Spot clean only, very gently. keep dry and out of direct sun - the mirrors and thread will only get more character with age, not less. store flat or hanging, never folded on the embroidery.