Where the patterns come from
The patterns of NOURANE come from India's buildings, and from the crafts that dressed them.
The first is the jaali: a screen of stone, carved through and set into a wall, to let in air and break the sun into shade. Light falls through it in small repeated shapes. Our leaf-window pattern is that light, drawn.
Others come from marble set with stone flowers, from mirror-work that turns one lamp into a thousand, from the arch and the stepwell. They appear here as light, stone, arch, lattice shadow and inlay, never as costume.
These crafts are where the designs begin. They are not how the pieces are made. NOURANE is designed in India and printed on coated canvas.
We name what we borrow, and we say plainly what we make.
रहिमन पानी राखिए, बिन पानी सब सून।
पानी गए न ऊबरै, मोती मानुष चून॥
Keep your water, Rahim; without it, all is empty. Once it is gone, nothing recovers: not the pearl’s lustre, not a person’s grace, not the flour.