about lin'atelier

Lin'Atelier began with a simple conviction: that clothing should be made the way it used to be — slowly, honestly, and from materials the earth can take back. We work in linen and nothing else. Not because it's trendy, but because flax is one of the few fibres that asks almost nothing of the land it grows in and gives back everything to the person who wears it. It breathes in heat, softens with age, and wears its creases like a record of the day rather than a flaw to iron out.

We're based in Jaipur, a city that has been working with cloth, dye, and thread for centuries, and that inheritance shows up in how we think about garments — unhurried, detail-first, built to outlast a season. The desert light here is unforgiving, and so is the heat for much of the year. Linen has survived in this part of the world for exactly that reason: it was never a luxury fabric here, it was a necessity, worn by people who needed clothing that could keep up with the climate. We make that same case again, just with a different audience in mind.

Every piece starts as raw flax and moves through a process we've kept deliberately old-fashioned. The fibre is washed before it's woven, woven before it's cut, and finished entirely by hand — hems, edges, buttonholes, all of it. We work in small batches, not because we can't scale, but because scaling usually means trading care for speed, and that trade isn't one we're willing to make. Nothing in our supply chain is rushed, and nothing in our finishing is outsourced to a process we can't stand behind.

Our philosophy is simple: natural fibres, honest construction, and clothes that age well instead of wearing out. No synthetic blends, no shortcuts in the finishing, no chasing of fast fashion's calendar. We'd rather make fewer garments that last for years than more garments that don't. A linen shirt from us is meant to be worn for a decade, washed hundreds of times, and look better for it each time — slightly softer, slightly more lived-in, the way good linen always does.

Lin'Atelier was founded by Dev Khatri, who grew up around textiles and chose to build something of his own — rooted in that same craft, but with its own point of view. What he started is now a small, independent label with one focus: linen, made properly, from a city that has never forgotten how. The result is a brand that treats linen not as a trend to dress up, but as a material worth taking seriously, season after season.