Sensclo · Bengaluru · India
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Clothes that feel like second skin.Made by hand, from India’s heritage crafts and natural fibres.
Our journey
Where it began.
Sensclo™ began in 2020 with a clear purpose: to celebrate craftsmanship, champion sustainability, and build something that actually means something. A clothing label, and a platform for the artisans whose skills risk being forgotten and for the people who want to wear something that carries a story.
What we hope for is smaller than a revolution.
We hope to encourage a pause. The kind that happens when you put something on and remember, for a moment, where it came from. The fabric against your skin was woven in Kutch, or embroidered in Bengal, or block-printed in Lucknow. By someone who showed up to their craft the way you showed up to yours.
At Sensclo, we believe in the power of stories woven into textiles and etched in the lives of people. And we build, slowly and carefully, around what we find.
What started in our tiny studio in Bengaluru has since travelled further than we imagined.
- 2020
Sensclo is founded in Bengaluru, with a commitment to heritage craft, natural fibres and fair practice.
- 2022
First physical showcase at the Bangalore International Centre, followed by exhibiting at the French Charity Bazaar in Delhi.
- 2023
We were selected for the NIFT Foundation for Design Incubation Program. The same year we presented at the DCWA and International Community Bazaar, Delhi.
- February 2024
Our first showcase in Chennai, with a conscious local community that understood immediately what we were building.
- March 2024
Presented at the Asia Polo Cup in Jaipur, to a refined and discerning audience.
- July 2024
Our UK debut in London and Rye. Warmly received and deeply encouraging.
- November 2024
Invited to an inaugural pop-up in Barcelona, followed by an invitation to speak at the Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món on innovation and creativity in the Indian craft sector.
- May 2025
The Sensclo Studio opens in Frazer Town, Bengaluru: a space where people can come and spend time with the work in person.
These became our way of working
Four things we kept coming back to.
Over time, certain phrases stayed with us. They reflected the reality of how we’ve chosen to build the brand.
- I
People first.
We build relationships before we build collections. With our artisans, our customers, and our community. The work only means something if the people behind it are treated with dignity and warmth.
- II
Individuality over uniformity.
We design for the person who knows their own mind, who chooses what they wear because it says something true about who they are.
- III
Timelessness over trend.
Everything we make is designed to outlast the season. We ask ourselves whether a piece will still feel right in ten years. If the answer is yes, we make it.
- IV
Inclusivity as intention.
Craft belongs to everyone. So does the right to wear something beautiful, considered and made with care.
These are the reasons we show up every day.
Our aim is textile and craft promotion with a livelihood impact bias. To minimise overproduction and reduce stock inventory at the grassroots level, we source fabric from artisan fairs, exhibitions and bazaars, deadstock, craft cooperatives and local markets.
We keep clear of greenwashing, and of certification systems whose costs and audits fall hardest on the craft community they claim to protect.
Much of our direct engagement is with crafters who work in their homes. This allows them to share generational learning of a craft with younger members of their family. Working from home in this context sustains traditional practices while remaining rooted within a community.
A show of hands
Behind every Sensclo piece is a pair of hands you’ll never see but whose work you’ll feel every time you wear it.
- It takes the time it takes.
- It takes a pair of hands and years of practice.
- Every irregularity that makes a piece its own came from those hands.
We work directly with artisan clusters across India, in long-term partnerships built on consistency and respect: ongoing relationships that give artisans the financial stability and dignity their craft deserves.
We’ve sat with weavers in Bhuj who learned their craft from their fathers, who learned from theirs. We’ve watched embroiderers in West Bengal work through a single motif for hours with an unmatched patience. We admired the precision with which blocks were placed by the artisans at the OG Sewa, Lucknow. We’ve seen grandmothers work side by side with their grandchildren at the loom, out of love for the making.
The people we work with are the reason Sensclo exists.
When you wear one of our pieces, you are wearing someone’s livelihood, their lineage and their quiet insistence that what they do still matters. It does.
At a home loom in Fulia, West Bengal. 
A block cut into teak by hand. 
A warp the length of the shed. 
Kantha, one running stitch at a time. 
Winding silk at home, Fulia. 
Two small dokra pieces, in the palm that makes them. 
Washed yarn, drying.
Our crafts
We follow a story, and the craft sets the calendar.
We try to release when the work is truly ready, when the craft has been given the time it actually needs and when we have a story worth telling through it. If a piece takes three months to embroider, it takes three months to embroider. That is the point.
The craft chooses the collection as much as we do. Sometimes that means Kantha. Sometimes Ajrakh, Ikat, Chikankari, Jamdani, Block printing, or Eco-printing.
What stays constant is this: every technique we work with is labour-intensive, rooted in a specific geography and community, and beyond any machine. Every piece carries the mark of human hands.
India has one of the richest textile traditions in the world. We consider it our responsibility and our privilege to bring some of it into the contemporary wardrobe.
Follow a craft
Choose a craft. Look a little closer.
Rajasthan and Gujarat
Block printing
Carvers, printers, dyers and washers, each doing one part of the same cloth.
Meet the craftOne coat
340
hours of hand stitching
The Red and Grey Reversible Kantha Coat: three layers of fabric, quilted through by hand. Bold red on one side, grey on the other, and both of them are the front.
The red side
Not made for an occasion
Made for Tuesday morning.
We design for the Tuesday morning and the Sunday afternoon. For the trip you didn’t plan and the meeting that ran long. For the version of you who wears something beautiful because it is Tuesday.
Our pieces are transeasonal by design, made to move between climates, contexts and years without losing their relevance. A Sensclo jacket worn in London in July should feel just as right in Bengaluru in December.
Clothes that move when you move, breathe when you breathe and ask for nothing of you in return.
When you invest in something handmade, something that took months to create and will last years to wear, it should work as hard as you do. Every day of the week.
In the studio now
See the shop
Worn in sixteen countries
They wear, they say.
Sensclo is my preferred choice, especially since I travel widely. One of my favourite buys is the black and red Kantha reversible coat that I paired with Italian boots and a Peruvian dress and scarf. Intricate. Sophisticated cut and craft. Very unique.
I really like the style of your clothes, especially in the waist. They are loose, comfortable, but still very stylish and beautifully made. I love the quality of the fabric and the artistry of the hand sewing.
Diane S, St Louis, USA
The pleated pants: extremely comfortable wearing and making you feel lighter, a joy wearing it. One of my students said I wear interesting clothes when he saw them.
Marijke d V, Utrecht, Netherlands
Mom's totally keeping the pants. And the best part is I can wear it too.
Rachna I, Mumbai
Hi Sensclo, just a note to say I wore the red dress and I absolutely love it.
Sarayu, Bengaluru
A space we call our own
Come and spend time with the work.
For years our pieces travelled the world before we had a home of our own. They found their way into wardrobes across sixteen countries. Today that space exists: Sensclo Studio, in Frazer Town, Bengaluru.
Slow fashion was never meant to live only on screens. It needs touch. It needs breath. It needs the quiet moment when you run your fingers over hand-blocked Ajrakh, feel the soft drape of handloom cotton, or trace the running stitches of a Kantha jacket that tells a story older than any trend.
Because we are still a lean team, the studio is a personal experience. We open our doors by appointment, so every visitor receives the time and attention the clothes deserve.
Our story