Inside the Hyderabad Workshop
Walk into our workshop at eight in the morning and you will see twelve women, each at a wooden frame the size of a writing desk, threading hair onto cotton tape one strand at a time.
They make nothing else. Not toppers one day and ponytails the next. A wefter wefts. A finisher finishes. A quality-checker spends her day with a magnifying lamp and a comb, looking for the one strand whose cuticle points the wrong way.
Every piece takes between thirty and seventy hours. Most are sold within a week of leaving the bench. None will be returned for the reason most extensions are returned — because none of these strands has been beaten into compliance by chemistry.
Our oldest piece, sold in 2020, is on its sixth year of daily wear. It came back this March for a re-wefting. The hair is still silk.