8 February 2026

Why every garment leaves with three names on it

On the lining-tag practice, and the people whose work outlives the seasons

Every Surbhi Sabnani piece carries a small lining-tag, hand-written, with three names on it: the cutting master, the senior karigar at the adda, and the woman in the finishing room who stitched the closure.

We do not do this because anyone has asked us to. We do it because cloth without a name is not yet finished.

Some of the families we work with have kept their craft alive across four generations. The garment is theirs as much as it is ours. The tag is the smallest acknowledgement we can make of that.

If you ever wonder who made what you are wearing, turn it inside out. The names are there.

— Surbhi Sabnani