jaivik.production · kathmandu

cut by hand, by name.

Every jaivik garment is tailored in Kathmandu by the Pariyar family — generational hemp tailors whose knowledge comes from lived experience, not textbooks.

Dipesh Pariyar's parents in their Kathmandu tailoring room with their first sewing machine

dipesh pariyar · in his own words

the family behind the thread.

In Nepal, Kathmandu, the Pariyar family has been making clothes for centuries. It has been a generational craft in our name. It's said that our ancestors tailored by looking at the person without measuring them — and it would fit perfect.

As far as I remember, my grandpa and dad can do it too. The garments we make are merely an accessory to the smile that's worn with them.

This emotion in making clothes that bring smiles to the faces of the people who wear them is in our blood. It's all about putting good luck and love into the clothes — this is the real quality you are wearing.

And it's not a fictional thing. Because we live this way. This is our culture — and we want you to see it, and to help us spread this love around the world.

dipesh pariyar · kathmandu
The extended Pariyar family gathered together in Kathmandu

why nepal

because the plant, the people and the craft are all in one valley.

Kathmandu is one of the few places on earth where wild-grown hemp, generational tailoring, and hand-dyeing all still exist in the same region. That is not a marketing coincidence — it is why jaivik is possible at all.

Building here means we don't have to ship fibre halfway round the world to be spun, then again to be tailored, then again to be sold. It stays in the valley until the moment it leaves for you.

It also means the money you spend goes to the people whose knowledge made the garment — not to a middle chain of factory agents.

how jaivik.production works.

01

in-house tailoring

Every cut, every seam, every finish happens within jaivik.production — no outsourced floors, no mystery suppliers. The cost of fair labour is built into the price, never shaved off it.

02

long-term relationships

We aren't chasing the cheapest factory this season. We've built a long-term partnership with one family and their community, so the people who make our clothing are stable, not seasonal.

03

traceable from fibre

Every garment can be traced back through tailoring, weaving, retting and harvest — to the valley and the hands the fibre came from.

04

the signed tag

Each piece leaves jaivik.production with the name of the person who tailored it stitched inside — accountability made physical.

The jaivik.production team outside the workshop in Kathmandu

the signed tag

a name, not a number.

Every garment leaves jaivik.production with the name of the person who tailored it embroidered into the inside tag, alongside the words “thank you for joining our tribe.”

inside tag — embroidered

tailored by

— dipesh p.

thank you for joining our tribe.

jaivik.production · kathmandu