10/09/2026
Anar Bahaar : The Bloom of Abundance. Our new table linen collection.
Anar is the pomegranate. Bahaar is spring at its fullest, the season when everything flowers at once. Put them together and you have what every festive table is really reaching for. Never just enough. Always more than enough.
The pomegranate turns up on festive tables almost everywhere, and it means roughly the same thing wherever it goes. In Sanskrit it is bijapura, the one filled with seeds. Ganesha is shown holding one and carries the epithet Bijapuraphalasakta, fond of the many seeded fruit. In Persian it is anar, the same word we use, and on Yalda, the longest night of the year, families sit up until dawn with pomegranates on the table. In Chinese the character for seed is the same one used for son, so a split pomegranate spilling its seeds became a standard wedding gift.
It has been going onto cloth for just as long. Exodus describes the high priest’s robe hemmed with pomegranates in blue, purple and scarlet yarn. By the fifteenth century it was the dominant motif in Italian silk and velvet.
So we printed it. Hand block printed on cotton in warm marigold yellow, soft blush pink and deep crimson. Marigold against blush, crimson against green, colour on colour and pattern on pattern. Indian tables were never meant to be quiet, and more has always been the point here.
Now on karibykriti.com, link in bio.
Artwork, in order: botanical plate of Punica granatum, public domain. Youth Holding a Pomegranate, Riza-yi Abbasi c.1600, Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0. Pomegranate Blossoms, Lu Zhi 1570, public domain. Velvet with pomegranate pattern, Italy, LACMA. Photograph from Lehra Gaga, Sangrur, Punjab by Dugal harpreet, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
