Block printing pink in Jaipur is perhaps inevitable.

Known as the Pink City, Jaipur has long shaped my visual language as a designer - from the faded terracottas of the old city to flashes of saturated bougainvillea climbing across palace walls and courtyards. It is a city that embraces colour with extraordinary confidence and nowhere is this more evident than within its craft traditions.

Jaipur Blossom began with a hand-drawn sketch of a Blue Pottery vase overflowing with flowers. Blue Pottery is one of Jaipur’s most distinctive crafts and it felt apt that it should become the starting point for this design.

Once finalised, the drawing is meticulously carved by hand into wooden blocks by artisans in Jaipur. The original vase motif becomes the būṭā - the central focal point of the tablecloth - before flowing outwards into a floral repeat framing the border.

Each individual colour within the design requires its own dedicated block and is printed separately onto crisp white cotton, layer by layer.

This is the first time we have inverted the traditional placement of print within a tablecloth design - allowing the motif space to breathe across the middle of the cloth, whilst anchoring the composition with a floral repeat border.

At Diggi Palace, I paired the linens with simple white plates, matching napkins and of course, at the centre sat the very bouquet that inspired the print itself.

As Diana Vreeland once famously remarked, “Pink is the navy blue of India.”

Consider this my ode.