Mulya - Eco-Printed Natural Dye Textiles

What happens to the flowers offered at a temple once the prayer is over? In Dehradun, some of them get a second life: pressed into cloth, steamed, and coaxed into leaving their exact shape and colour behind. This is eco-printing: no two petals fall the same way, so no two garments can ever match.

Mulya is a women-led house of natural dyes: sarees, dupattas, silk yardage, and stoles printed with real petals and leaves. More than sixty women work behind the cloth, and over a hundred thousand flowers have passed through their hands.

The result is a textile that is part garden, part record: every piece a one-time event, like weather.