Khambhadia Patchwork Placemats

Where meals are shared, cloth gathers the trace of use. These placemats bring the logic of patchwork into daily ritual. They are built from the Khambhadia patchwork tradition — cloth fragments joined by hand stitching in rhythms that carry time rather than trend.  Each surface resists uniformity. Instead, it celebrates material intelligence — patches that meet like neighbors, stitches that bind like gestures remembered. In the ritual of setting a table, these placemats become the quiet witnesses to returning, breaking bread, and lingering conversations. Each piece is constructed from joined cloth fragments, stitched together by hand to form a surface that carries both structure and softness. Seams remain visible, not hidden — a reminder that this textile is made through joining, not printing or replication. As part of the table, these placemats do not perform as decoration. They hold space — for meals shared, for pauses taken, for the quiet repetition of daily life. With time, they wil