What happens between saying yes and your silk arriving.
You choose your tier, submit your details, and tell us how this stole will be worn and who it is for. We confirm by email within 24 hours — with your weaver's name, their village, and the date your threads will be dressed onto the loom. This is not a fulfilment email. It is an introduction.
Your silk is pulled from the store. Muga cocoons from Assam — not a factory floor, but the forests of the Brahmaputra valley, where the silkworm feeds on som and sualu leaves and produces the only naturally golden silk on earth. Each batch is tested by hand for uniformity of sheen. A thread that does not catch the light the right way is set aside.
The loom is dressed with your threads. Each warp thread is counted by hand, tensioned by hand, and tied by hand. There is no machine that does this well enough. For The Ganga: 3,200 warp threads. For The Vikram: 3,800 — including the border threads that will carry your name. This takes most of a day. It is the most invisible part of the process and one of the most important.
Your weaver works on your stole alone. No other stole is on the loom. Five to ten days, depending on the tier. Each pass of the shuttle is a decision. The rhythm is not mechanical — it is a conversation between the weaver and the silk. Muga resists. It has its own nature. An experienced weaver works with it, not against it.
The stole is cut from the loom, finished, and examined in full daylight and lamplight. The fringe is dressed. The weave is checked thread by thread at the edges. Any stole that does not meet standard is rewoven. Not adjusted — rewoven. This has happened. It is not a marketing claim. It is what the standard requires.
Shipped via DHL Express, worldwide, from Bhagalpur to your door. Arrives in a black archival box — tissue-wrapped, sealed. Inside: your stole, your Certificate of Origin, and a handwritten card from the weaver. Not printed. Written. In 2–3 days from dispatch, your silk is in your hands.
Every stole ships with a Certificate of Origin — the weaver's full name, their village, the silk type, the date woven, and a unique stole number. It cannot be reproduced. It cannot be issued again. It is a document that exists once, for one stole, for one person.
You hold stole #7 of July 2026. There will never be another.
The Vikram tier includes your name woven directly into the border in Devanagari script — not embroidered, but woven in as part of the structure of the stole. Other tiers are made exactly as described. Natural variations in thread and sheen cannot be guaranteed across weaves — this is the nature of handwoven silk, and we consider it a quality, not a defect.
We have never had a dissatisfied commission holder. If something is genuinely wrong with the weave — a structural defect, a break in the selvedge, a flaw in the finish — we rework it at no cost to you. We do not accept returns for reasons of preference. This is a made-to-commission piece, made specifically for you, once. That is what you are commissioning.
12–14 days total from the moment your commission is confirmed to the moment your stole is in your hands. The weaving takes 5–10 days depending on the tier. DHL Express from Bhagalpur, India, to your door: 2–3 business days. You will receive a tracking number the morning it is dispatched.
Yes. We ship to all major territories: United Kingdom, United States, UAE, Japan, France, Germany, Singapore, South Korea, Italy, Switzerland — and to other destinations on request. Import duties are the responsibility of the recipient where applicable. We ship with full documentation to ensure smooth customs clearance.
One per commission holder, per drop. This is not a policy made for convenience — it is a rule made for fairness. Each drop has ten stoles. Ten people should be able to hold one each. This is a one-stole-per-person rule, to ensure access remains equitable across The First Circle. If you wish to commission a stole as a gift, contact us directly before submitting.