Our story
We are a small family business, based near the coast in Moray, North East Scotland, our designs and colours are inspired by this stunning area which never fail to rejuvenate, revive and inspire…
Our collection has been designed in Scotland and hand crafted in India using traditional artisan methods including Bandhani (hand tie dye technique), hand embroidery and digital print.
Our luxury resort wear collection includes embroidered and printed dresses, kaftans, jackets and scarves in natural fabrics such as silk, cupro and recycled silk saris, all in beautiful vibrant shades inspired by coast and sea.
Our range has been designed to compliment our range of handmade gemstone silver jewellery (Poppy Jewellery). Think beautiful handcrafted unique silkdresses, jackets, cardigans and scarves in rich jewel, coastal inspired colours of indigo, cobalt blue, jade, lapis, turquoise, thistle….
Unique fabrics & prints…
Our printed dresses are digitally printed for us in small numbers using our own exclusive in-house prints onto natural fabrics such as silk or cupro.
Our pure silk bandhani pattern fabric is created by hand, using a traditional tie-dyeing method (Bandhani is an artisan craft from Rajasthan) and each piece has a slightly different pattern and is therefore unique.
Our exclusive in-house designed embroidery is finished with hand beading detail.
Our vintage upcycled collection includes dresses, jackets and scarves which are made from recycled silk saris, which are carefully selected for quality and design and are finished with handstitching.
Our colour block silk dresses are made from 100% pure Bengal silk, a beautiful, lightweight handloom silk produced for us by an artisan community in the village of Islampur, Bengal. The silk is woven using handlooms by highly skilled weavers.
Ethical Policy
Poppy Silk is committed to designing, sourcing and manufacturing our clothing range that helps people, communities & the environment:
- Where possible make choices that are as enviromentally friendly as possible ie the use of natural sustainable fabrics, recycled silks saris, biodegrable mailing packaging.
- Support the development and use of handcrafted fabrics and work by communities and artisans.
- Our recycled silk sari clothing range is produced for us by a social enterprise in Pushkar India; a business dedicated to producing quality work, whilst contributing fairly to the livelihood of the producers.
- Ensure we pay our suppliers good prices that reflect the high quality of their work.
- No child labour.
Credits
Website design: Poppy Design
Thank you to the following for their wonderful services: Photography: Gary Murison Photography /Models: Cirila Zorenc (@cyrillaz), Nikola Postranecka (@nikky.post), Gabriela Balcerzak, Sam Nelson.