Linen, made after
you ask for it.
Cut, dyed and stitched at our own atelier in New Delhi. Nothing kept in stock, nothing made before it's ordered.
What happens after you click buy.
The same 8-stage process we track internally for every order.
Order Confirmed
Payment received, your size and colour locked in.
Fabric Selected & Cut
Your exact size cut from European linen at our New Delhi atelier.
Dyeing & Colour Treatment
Hand-dyed to your chosen colour in small batches.
Stitching in Progress
Sewn by tailors hired on skill, at our own atelier.
Quality Check & Finishing
Inspected by hand before it's boxed.
Packed & Handed to Courier
Duties and taxes already settled.
Out for Delivery
With the courier for final delivery.
Delivered
Yours. Nothing left to pay.
Where every piece begins.
Since 2014
Our own atelier in New Delhi — modern equipment, not outsourced to unknown workshops.
Hired on skill
Every tailor and embroiderer here was brought on for the quality of their work alone, not their background, religion, or ethnicity.
Fair wages
Paid to everyone on the floor, no exceptions.
Duties, taxes, and worldwide shipping are already included — the same number you see on every product page, nothing added later.
A dress doesn't end with you.
What began in Delhi — clients returning worn ANAHIV pieces for store credit or a redesign — is now opening to the rest of the world.
Send a photo of your worn dress, drop it at any textile recycling point near you, and it becomes credit toward your next piece — no shipping to India required.
Let us redesign it instead.
Not ready to let it go completely? Send us the piece and our atelier will redesign it into something new — a top from an old dress, a cushion cover from a worn cloth, something remade to mean a little differently this time.
16 years, so far.
A few of the moments that mattered.
Our Whole Journey
In 2010, Anahiv began as a small store in New Delhi, India, selling cotton and linen fabric alongside tailoring services for women. Customers could bring their own fabric or purchase ours, and have it stitched into a finished garment.
Later that year, we added hand embroidery services — a decision made specifically to support hand embroiderers across India who had found themselves out of work.
In 2011, we began accepting customers' old clothes to recycle and redesign into something new — turning old Indian sarees into dresses, old dresses into tops, and so on.
In 2014, we opened Anahiv — The Atelier, a modern workshop equipped with Juki machines, built specifically to produce linen garments for women.
That same year, we reopened the Anahiv store with a focus on linen dresses, and folded our hand embroidery services into the newly opened Atelier.
In 2015, we opened our first recycling drop point, where customers could either hand in their old garments in exchange for a discount on something new, or have those old garments redesigned and stitched into entirely new outfits.
In 2016, we introduced hand-embroidered dresses into the Anahiv store, with a firm focus on hand embroidery using cotton thread exclusively.
In 2017, we took a firm stand against machine and computerised embroidery, incorporating different hand embroidery techniques from across India to help preserve a craft under threat frxom the rise of embroidery machines. We wrote this into company policy: machine embroidery would never be used. To this day, we support close to 1,500 hand embroiderers across India, buying their work and selling it without taking any profit.
In 2017, we reached our first major milestone — 1,000 linen dresses sold in India.
Also in 2017, we began a mission to distribute 10,000 sanitary pads to girls who couldn't otherwise afford them, as our contribution toward eradicating menstrual poverty in India.
In 2018, we extended that mission further, committing 3% of every sale to NGOs working to eradicate menstrual poverty in India.
That same year, we introduced Linen Home & Living — table cloths, placemats, napkin sets, pillowcases, duvet covers, bedsheets, and more.
In 2019, we distributed cotton clothing to 500 girls living in foster homes.
In 2020, we closed the Anahiv store as the pandemic began.
Through 2020 and 2021, we worked around the clock for two years, making three-layer cotton face masks to be distributed across India, funded entirely through donations.
In 2022, we reopened Anahiv — The Atelier, resuming production of linen dresses and Linen Home & Living.
That same year, we took Anahiv online with the launch of our website.
In 2024, we opened Anahiv to the global market, shipping to the USA, Europe, the UK, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, and Dubai.
In 2026, we're opening our recycling program to the global market.
In October 2026, we're introducing diamond jewellery, with a strong focus on sustainable, lab-grown diamonds.
In December 2026, we'll bring our love of hand embroidery to the world — thread and sequin embroidery on linen products, and more.
From people who ordered.
"This became my favorite travel dress instantly."
"Love how breathable this fabric feels even during hot weather."
"This has become my favorite throw-on summer dress."
"Couldn't stop wearing this dress after it arrived. The relaxed linen fit is exactly what I wanted for summer."
"The quality of the fabric feels really nice and breathable. It has that airy relaxed look I always want from linen clothing."
From New Delhi, out into the world.
Watch it go — one route at a time.