TIES

DESIGNS
We Design all of our Ties Ourselves!
We have Designed a Range of Tie Styles for all Occasions from Formal Wear Ties, Wedding Tie Sets, Tie Styles for the Horse Races, Office Ties for Daily Wear and Some Unique Tie Cufflinks and Handkerchief Sets for all of the Above. 

FABRIC
We Only source High Quality Silks from India that are all custom made according to our unique designs. All our Silk is Hand-Woven Jacquard Silk and made to our strict quality specifications.

BOOKS

Handmade Cotton Paper
The raw materials used in handmade paper found in Pages of Beige albums & journals range from all manner of vegetable matter (including leaves, tree moss, potatoes, flowers), old ropes, canvas, linen, new & old cotton Rags. They sometimes include hosiery & tailor cuttings, jute waste, paper waste & agro-waste fibers like Bagasse, Banana, Mulberry, Hemp & Remi.

SORTING & DUSTING
The cotton rag (raw material) is sorted by hand to remove unwanted materials, variation in color and dust.

RAG CHOPPING
The sorted material is chopped into small uniform sized pieces for making the pulp.

BEATING
The hollander pulps the chopped rags in water. Inert chemicals are added to give the paper the desired color, physical properties and consistency.

SHEET FORMATION
Option 1 (for thin/fine paper). DIPPING: The pulp is diluted with water and put into a masonry trough or vat. The lifting mould is then dipped into the trough, shaken evenly and lifted out with the pulp on it.
Option 2 LIFTING: A fixed measure of pulp is poured evenly onto a mould, which is clamped between two wooden deckles (frames) in a water tank. The mould is then raised mechanically to drain excess water.

COUCHING
The wet paper is transferred on a cloth/felt sheet, building up a stack of interleaved sheets.

PRESSING
A hydraulic press is used to squeeze out excess water from the sheets. This improves the physical properties of the paper and facilitates drying.

DRYING
The sheets are hang dried to remove moisture.

CLEANING & SIZING
Small dirt particles are removed manually with pincers. The cleaned sheets are coated with starch to further improve the physical properties of the paper.

CALENDERING
The sheets are placed between metallic plates and passed through spring loaded rollers in a calendering machine. This smoothens them and enhances the gloss. This process is also used to get different surface textures.

CUTTING
The sheet till this point has the natural deckle edge. To make the paper workable it is cut in standard size of 22"x30" or 56X76cms and then packed for delivery.
oHandmade paper by its character shall always have minor variation in shade, thickness and density embellishments in each lot.

Paper has the advantage of being 100% wood free which makes it the most eco-friendly form of paper around. It is also 100% recycled. Handmade paper is excellent for writing as well as printing. It has greater tensile, bursting, tearing and double-fold strength compared to conventional paper. The paper is solar dried, so no energy wastage. No trees are cut to make such paper, the pulp used to make the paper is derived from Cotton Fabric Rags, and this makes it 100% eco-friendly and 100% natural.

COVERS 
Our covers are made out of leather as well as silk sari fabric. Silk sari covers are hand woven while both virgin and recycled leather are both used. All the embossing work is done by hand.


TIES

DESIGNS
We Design all of our Ties Ourselves. 
We have Designed a Range of Tie Styles for all Occasions from Formal Wear Ties, Wedding Tie Sets, Tie Styles for the Horse Races, Office Ties for Daily Wear and Some Unique Tie Cufflinks and Handkerchief Sets for all of the Above. 

FABRIC
We Only Source High Quality Silks from India. All our Silk is Hand-Woven and made to our strict specifications.