Our story
A small workshop with strong opinions about fit
We are not trying to be the biggest clothing brand in Nepal. We are trying to make things that fit the people who buy them.
Chapter one
A wardrobe that never quite fitted
Uxal began with a frustration most of us have felt. Nepal produces some of the most remarkable cloth in the region — dhaka woven on pit looms, allo spun from mountain nettle, khadi carded and spun by hand — and yet buying clothes made from it usually meant accepting a fit that was close enough.
Close enough is the enemy of a good garment. A shoulder seam half an inch off changes how a jacket hangs for its whole life. So we started with fit and worked backwards from there.
Chapter two
Buying fabric the slow way
We buy from weavers directly, at a price they set. It costs more than sourcing from a mill and it means we cannot always promise the same pattern twice — a dhaka run is a few metres long, not a few hundred.
In exchange we get cloth with a texture no machine reproduces, and a supply chain short enough that we can name everyone in it.
Chapter three
Designing, then re-designing
Every pattern is drafted in-house. We sew the first sample, wear it for a week, and find what is wrong — a pocket too shallow, a hem that rides up, a collar that will not sit. Then we do it again.
Most of our pieces reached their third or fourth version before we were willing to sell them. A few never made it out of the workshop at all.
How we work
Four things we will not change
Made to order
We do not hold stock we hope to sell. Your piece is cut after you ask for it, which is why it takes a few weeks.
Fair to the weaver
Fabric is bought at the weaver's price. It is the largest line in our costs and the one we will not squeeze.
One conversation per order
Every order involves an actual phone call. It is slower than a checkout button, and it catches problems a form never would.
Built to be repaired
Generous seam allowances, natural fibres, nothing bonded or fused. If a piece needs mending in five years, it can be mended.
Come and see what we have made
Every piece in the catalogue can be cut to your measurements.