Bengaluru-based Tharangini Studio designs Stanley 1913’s first-ever Deepavali collection

The global drinkware brand has collaborated with Bengaluru’s 50-year-old Tharangini Studio for its first Deepavali collection in India, translating vintage festive motifs from its archive of over 6,000 designs into the 30oz Quencher ProTour and Stacking Cup Set

Updated - November 12, 2026 05:59 pm IST

Some of the artisans at the studio with Padmini | Photo Credit: Anahita Ananth

Just off the bustling CV Raman Road in Bengaluru, on a quiet lane skirting Sankey Tank, is Tharangini Studio, where a block printing workshop is underway. Apron-clad participants flit in and out of the studio, pausing occasionally to peek at the monkeys who have laid siege to a fruit-laden tamarind tree, one of the many shading the premises of this 50-year-old studio.

It is here, in this true-blue Bengaluru institution, the oldest surviving block printing studio in the city, that the design behind durable drinkware brand Stanley 1913’s first-ever Deepavali collection was born.

Marketed by the brand’s official retail partner in India, Bhaane Group, the Stanley 1913 x Nest Diwali Collection launched in India on November 3 with the 30 oz Quencher ProTour and the Stacking Cup Set, both available on the official Stanley 1913 India website or at a kiosk in Bengaluru’s Phoenix Mall of Asia. Globally, too, the design has made its way onto a range of leakproof products, including the 30 oz Quencher ProTour, 20 oz Flowstate Spring Bottle, 1 qt New Legend Vacuum Bottle, 16 oz Café-to-Go Mug and the Stacking Cup Set.

“For our first Diwali collection, we wanted to start with the rituals that make the festival so personal: welcoming family and friends, lighting lamps at home, and sharing food and gifts,” says YuNien Chang, the APAC general manager of Stanley 1913. He adds that by working with Padmini Govind (partner at Tharangini Studio and the daughter of its founder, Lakshmi Srivathsa) and her team, these traditions came alive in objects people use every day.

The collection, which starts at ₹5,000, has two colourways, Deepa Rose and Deepa Brown Sugar, featuring a paisley pattern resembling a mango fruit leaf as well as henna motifs. “Putting those patterns on a tumbler or a set of cups gives people another way to encounter that craft, whether they’re giving one as a Diwali gift or sharing chai long after the festival,” notes Chang.

Putting block print patterns on a tumbler or a set of cups gives people another way to encounter that craft | Photo Credit: Anahita Ananth

Over the years, Stanley has partnered with numerous brands and celebrities for its collections, including LoveShackFancy, Lionel Messi, FARM Rio, Starbucks and Barbie. And the origins of this collaboration came from Tharangini Studio’s association with Nest, a New York-based non-profit that supports and advocates for global artisans, makers, and the handcraft sector. “We have been part of a programme under Nest since 2022,” says Padmini, explaining that the non-profit certifies artisan studios around the world for their fair trade, ethical and sustainability practices. Over the following two and a half years or so, representatives of Nest frequented the studio, speaking to artisans and understanding, in minute detail, how the studio was being run. “They wanted to really ensure that we are truly doing justice to the artisans,” she says.

Through Nest, Tharangini Studio discovered that Stanley had put out a call for Deepavali design collaborations, inviting anyone who was interested in partnering with them to apply. “I had heard of Stanley, and it sounded like a very exciting opportunity, especially since this was the first time the brand was coming to India, and also the first time they were doing a Diwali collection,” says Padmini, pointing out that the studio ended up being shortlisted not only because of their designs, but also the story behind the brand. Chang agrees. “Tharangini is a women-led heritage studio that has kept hand-block printing alive across generations. The studio’s long relationship with Nest and its archive of more than 6,000 designs made it a natural partner,” he says.

The design process began with the Tharangini team doing a deep dive into this very archive, recalls Padmini. “In the first three decades of Tharangini, from the time amma started it in the 1970s to 2007, when I got back from the US and jumped in, we were exclusively printing silk sarees. So, our library had a lot of vintage, festive blocks.” These blocks were then used to make fabric panels, she explains, unfurling an early trial panel on which some of the sample designs were presented. “For the past five decades, we have specialised in textile printing. That can, of course, translate into other media like drinkware, but you need to commit a design to cloth to know if it works,” she says.