I — Karnataka, India · 22mm Mulberry Silk · Oeko-Tex Certified
The Ritual
of Silk.
22-mommeis the weight at which silk stops feeling like fabric and starts feeling like temperature. Below it, you’re buying the name. At it, you’re buying the thing itself.
French seams. Hand-inspected. Karnataka-sourced. Not a blend.
II — Kashmir, India · 12–15 Micron · GI Certified Pashmina
Woven Wind
— Pashmina.
12–15 microns is not a marketing claim. It is the threshold below which fiber stops feeling like textile and begins behaving like a second skin. The biological standard for non-irritating luxury.
Changthangi goat. GI Tag 177 (2008). Six months per piece. Kashmir.
III — India · GOTS-Certified 100% Organic Cotton
The Earth
Standard.
Conventional cotton uses 16% of global pesticides on 2.5% of farmland. GOTS certification is the only standard that legally prohibits what ends up against your skin at night.
Audited annually. No synthetic finishes. No formaldehyde. India.
The Studio Standard
For two thousand years, the finest textiles on earth left the looms of India. Mughal emperors classified Kashmiri Pashmina as a strategic asset. European courts paid the equivalent of a century’s wages for a bolt of Dacca muslin — a fabric so fine it was called “woven air.”
The craft never stopped. The recognition did.
Aravat Studio is a correction. We source with documented provenance — GI-certified fiber where it exists, Oeko-Tex where synthetic standards apply. We price to fund the artisan and fund the studio, not to fund a margin stack built for retail acquisition. Every product we sell is a permanent piece, not a seasonal SKU. We make fewer things, better.
22mm
Silk Momme Weight
Dermatologist-recommended threshold for genuine silk benefit to skin and hair
12–15μ
Pashmina Fiber Diameter
Below cashmere. The biological standard for non-irritating luxury
GI
Certified Provenance
Government of India Geographic Indication Tag 177 — not self-certified
100%
Natural. No Blends.
No synthetics, no fillers. The fiber is the product.
Founding Circle — First 500 Members
This collection is built to order.
Yours shapes it.
Aravat does not manufacture speculatively. Batch 01 is a limited production run of 500 units across both collections, produced only when the founding order confirms demand. Founding Circle members receive:
- —Priority fulfilment — first to ship
- —Locked pricing, 20% below public launch
- —Direct input into which products we make next
- —One letter when we ship, nothing before
Slow fashion. Six months, made right.