Buddhi Batiks

03/06/2026

Sunny day at workshop in Koswadiya ☀️☁️

22/05/2026

16/05/2026

Kiara ♥️

12/05/2026

Every collection, there is a peace piece. A shirt, a tee, a quiet insistence.

Peace is a strange thing to keep saying out loud. It is easy to mistake for a slogan, or worse, a mood. But the older you get, the more you understand that peace is not a feeling. It is a structure. A set of small agreements that hold, until they don’t. Craft is one of those agreements. So is community. So is the patience to make something slowly when the world is moving fast.

The peace piece is not a statement. It is a reminder that the things worth protecting rarely announce themselves until they are gone.

08/05/2026

Every craft has a place it comes from. For Buddhi, that place was Koswadiya. He found his inspiration there, and in time the village and the man became inseparable. A quiet love story, told in cloth.
Forty-four years ago, Indu became one of his customers. She is still here, now wearing his daughter’s work. In this conversation, she and Darshi return to the old days, to Buddhi, to Koswadiya, and to a craft that outlives the people who carry it because the people who carry it pass it on.
The closing film in our Fashion Revolution series. The whole point of slow fashion, in one room.
Darshi Keerthisena

05/05/2026

Handmade is not a style. It is a fact about how something came to exist. Someone sat with it for hours, sometimes days. Their mood, their method, their quiet attention, all of it pressed into the cloth long before it ever reached your hands.

Here, Angeline is in conversation with Darshi about a leap of faith twenty years ago that still hangs proudly in her closet, and about Sri Lanka’s extraordinary legacy of craft. A legacy that is older than any of us, quieter than the industry built around it, and worth every hour it asks for.

Craft like this does not survive on its own. It survives because people like Angeline insist on it.

30/04/2026

We’ve always believed that when buying clothes to choose well, invest thoughtfully and make it last.

Fifteen years ago, Rashmi bought this Buddhi Batiks sari.

Years later, Darshi re-designed it into an osariya for her daughter Sahitra to wear to a wedding; the same Buddhi Batiks sari Sahi had promised herself, as a little girl, she’d wear one day.

A garment worn for two decades. Restyled, not replaced. Passed between two generations of one family and one designer who knows them both.

This is what slow fashion actually looks like.

14/04/2026

Happy New Year to everyone 🙏🏽

10/04/2026

“Ananta” - Summer 26 ♥️

07/04/2026

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