The mii workshop

From creation to production: ancient expertise brought back to the heart of every piece.

From creation to production, with no intermediaries.

We chose to set up our workshop right from the brand's inception to control the entire process, from creation to production. Knowing our entire chain means better managing our costs so that artisans are paid without multiple intermediaries, and it also means working in complete transparency!

Through Mii, we want to restore and highlight exceptional ancestral textile know-how, including numerous hand-weaving and hand-embroidery techniques.

In December 2023, we inaugurated our new workshop.

A place of excellence and research and development.

Located in the Bardhaman district, in the Bengal region in the northeast of the country, it was designed to adapt to the region's climate. Built using vernacular techniques, it is a bioclimatic building that provides natural light and ventilation to our teams throughout the day.

Location & Weavers

We chose to settle in the countryside, as close as possible to the craft villages and Bapan's birthplace. Our wish is to participate in the economic development of this isolated region and to develop employment there.

The workshop exceptionally brings together artisanal techniques such as embroidery, block printing, and screen printing combined with technology, state-of-the-art machines for fixing prints or preparing threads for weaving.

Our weaving is always done in the villages on traditional looms; this is a choice we made to allow the surrounding villages to develop. For over 10 years, we have been working with the same families of weavers.

Natural Water Purification

We have installed a natural and innovative wastewater treatment process using plants (Cana Indica) and bacteria. Comprising 10 ponds on two levels, they filter the water before it re-enters the production circuit.

Each mii garment is made from start to finish in the workshop, from the thread to the order preparation. We only use natural materials, cotton, linen, silk, wool…

A few meters from the workshop, another space, designed as a creative studio, allows us to conduct research and development each season.

Alongside it, a pond and a field of mango and lychee trees, as well as an organically cultivated plot, adjoin the residence, which houses employees who wish to stay there.

We conduct numerous pilot projects on our land; for example, one plot is reserved for indigo cultivation. For over a year, we have been harvesting and processing indigo there, a crop that completely disappeared from the region during colonization.

In addition to this creative and ambitious project, Mii plans to open a training school to teach ancestral techniques and textile know-how to families in the surrounding villages. This strong social and environmental dimension has permeated the brand since its inception.