Keita skirt detail

Preferring to create its own textile designs, Easton Pearson used premade textiles only when the skill and technique was exquisite. One example is the Keita skirt. The delicate white fabric has tepchi stitch and chikan work, a handmade white-on-white embroidery for which Lucknow, in northern India, is famous. Easton Pearson sourced this chikan work directly from an ethical producer in Lucknow who paid its workers fairly and provided good working conditions. The alternative would have been to buy cheaper and more readily available versions of the fabric at the markets, but the source would be unknown and the quality more difficult to control. The Mumbai embroidery workshop beaded the wooden tulsi beads onto the chikan work. The motifs were inspired by tapa cloths from the Pacific.