Termeh Workshop

The Termeh Workshop has woven silk-brocade termeh in Yazd for three generations, working the boteh pattern — the teardrop motif that gives festival dress its recognizable drape and shimmer — on a hand-loom set up much as it was by the founder's grandfather. The loom is threaded by hand for each design change, a process that can take days before a single row is woven, and the silk brocade weft is worked in slowly enough that a single length of fabric represents weeks of a weaver's time. What distinguishes a Termeh Workshop piece from mass-loomed imitations is the slight, human irregularity in the repeat and a weight and drape that only a genuine silk-brocade construction produces. The workshop is based in Iran and its textiles reach ATG through a screened export partner who manages compliant shipping into the EU.

In Yazd, the Termeh Workshop has woven silk-brocade termeh for three generations — the boteh pattern that gives festival dress its signature drape, still set on a hand-loom before it becomes a garment.

Yazd, Iran

The workshop insists on hand-threading the loom for every design, even though it costs days that a mechanized process wouldn't.