About us
Akanksha and Abhishek grew up in Jaipur and now live in Pune. House of Abhisha began with a question neither of them could answer: why was a good pure cotton bedsheet either hard to find, or priced well beyond what it should cost?
The founders
Akanksha is an interior designer. She has always believed the smallest details can transform a home — textiles, colours and prints were never just products to her, but a way of making a space feel warm and personal.
Abhishek is a business analyst. He brought the other half: an understanding of numbers, and of what it takes to build something that lasts.
Born and raised in Jaipur, they grew up surrounded by colour, craft and hand block printing. Living in Pune years later, they found the textiles they took for granted were unknown to most people — and that good cotton came at a price most homes could not justify. That did not sit right with them.
That did not sit right with them.
Akanksha & Abhishek Founders, House of Abhisha
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Bagru, RajasthanHow it began
We were both born and brought up in Jaipur, surrounded by colour, craft and hand block printing. It was ordinary to us. Living in Pune, we found that it was not ordinary to everyone, and that good cotton for the home usually carried a price that put it out of reach.
That did not sit right with us, and House of Abhisha started there.
Block printed at homeThe name
Naming it took longer than starting it. We wrote down ideas, rejected most of them, and kept looking for something that belonged to both of us.
ABHI from Abhishek. SHA from Akanksha. Put together, Abhisha. We added House because what we were building was a place for textiles, craft and the stories behind them, not only a shelf of products.
Amer, JaipurThe craft
Long before Jaipur existed as a city, a community of dyers and printers called the Chhipas settled along the rivers near Bagru and Sanganer. The mineral rich soil and clean water there were exactly what cloth needed to wash properly and hold a natural dye.
When Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II founded Jaipur in 1727, he set aside whole neighbourhoods for craft families, so printers, dyers and block carvers had somewhere permanent to live and work. The craft moved from the villages into the courts.
Two styles settled in. Sanganer is fine and floral, soft motifs on a pale ground. Bagru is bolder and earthier, using a mud resist called dabu to make geometric patterns in indigo, terracotta and black.
By the late 1960s cheap machine printed cloth had nearly ended it. Revivalists, among them the founders of Anokhi, worked directly with local printers and brought the demand back. Jaipur is now one of the most recognised centres for handmade textiles anywhere, and the Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing keeps the techniques on record.
PuneFive years on
Five years of finding prints, working with artisans, packing orders and meeting the people who buy them. Our pieces now travel to homes across India and well beyond it, each one carrying a little of Jaipur with it.
Everything we make is 100% cotton, handmade, and priced so the craft stays within reach. The aim was never the highest possible margin. It was to make the art reach further.
Taking a legacy forward
Hand block printing is patience and precision. A carved wooden block meets cloth, lifts, and meets it again, print after print, and the small differences between impressions are what make each piece its own.
We would rather that craft sat in everyday homes than behind glass. A bedsheet can carry a story. A quilt can carry a memory. A tote can carry a piece of tradition wherever it goes.
Our journey, your home
Born in Jaipur. Built in Pune. Rooted in tradition. Made for every home.
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