A little bit about what makes our story so personal… Long before I started Namai, I discovered these vintage Kantha quilts and just became totally obsessed with them. I’m half Indian, but I didn’t grow up with my Indian culture. For me, discovering these quilts felt like a way to reconnect with my heritage. And the bright colors and bold designs that I always imagined women wearing in India made me so happy.  So I started buying the quilts, they were all over my house, and I was giving them to friends. At some point I just had the idea that I wanted to start making jackets with them, and it was something that was in the back of my mind for many years, until one day I just started to do it. It gives me joy to see people respond to the colors of the jackets the same way I did when I discovered the quilts.