Design Alchemy Collective

28/10/2026

If a quilt took a month to make in Jaipur - stitched by women in a village outside the city - confining it to a space you only see for eight hours while you are asleep seems like a waste.

Five places a DAC quilt can actually belong, beyond the bedroom:

On the wall - the underprint surface holds attention the way a print or canvas rarely does. A wooden dowel, a fabric sleeve, two wall brackets.

Over a sofa arm - thrown casually, not arranged. The kantha stitching gives it enough structure to hold the drape.

In a reading corner - a half quilt over the back of a chair. There when you need it, decorative when you do not.

As a guest room statement - folded across the end of the bed. Guests always ask about it.

Down the centre of a dining table - a quilt runner. Far more interesting than anything sold specifically as a table runner.

30% Sale until 31st Oct 2026

The full guide, with styling notes for each, is on the blog.

https://designalchemycollective.com/blogs/collection-narratives/five-ways-to-use-a-quilt-that-are-not-the-bedroom

27/10/2026

The Labour Weekend Sale is staying open until Saturday.

30% off everything until midnight Saturday 31 October.

Every underprint quilt and cushion is one of a kind. The cloth sat beneath the fabric on the printing tables in Jaipur and caught the colour of each block impression. Each piece holds a record of the printing day, and none can be made again.

The velvet quilts in Moss, Iris Blue and Damson are 30% off as well.

https://designalchemycollective.com

Bespoke one-of-a-kind cushions and bed quilts. Upcycling and circular design. Kind to the home and the environment. Handmade and unique. Azo free dyes, recycled water plant and organic fibres.

25/10/2026

A quilt for a spring night - lighter than a duvet, more considered than a throw.

Every quilt on the site is 30% off until midnight tonight Monday 26th October 2026.
Half quilts and full quilts, each reversible, with a linen-cotton back in a colour chosen to sit against the face.

No two underprint quilts are the same. If one has found you, this is the weekend.

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24/10/2026

This long weekend, everything at Design Alchemy Collective is 30% off.

Every underprint quilt and cushion is a one-off. The cloth sat beneath the block printing tables in Sanganer, catching colour nobody planned, until it became something worth keeping. When a piece sells, there isn't another one.

The discount comes off automatically at checkout - no code needed.

The sale ends at 11.59pm on Monday 26 October.

https://designalchemycollective.com/

23/10/2026

A note for the long weekend.

From Saturday 24th October until midnight on Labour Day, everything at Design Alchemy Collective is 30% off. Quilts, cushions, the Painterly range, the velvet quilts, silk cushions and kaftans - all of it.

If you've followed along, you'll know where these pieces come from. The underprint cloth sits beneath the fabric being block printed in Sanganer, Jaipur, and catches the dye that falls through. Weeks of printing build a surface nobody designed. We choose it at the right moment, and Mohini, Meena and the women in the stitching village outside Jaipur turn it into quilts and cushions.

No two are alike, so if there's a piece you've had your eye on, Saturday is first pick.

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22/10/2026

Heads up..... From Saturday 24th, until Labour Day night 26th October, everything in the collection is 30% off.

Every underprint quilt and cushion. The Painterly range. The velvet quilts in Moss, Iris Blue and Damson. Silk cushions and kaftans.

Each underprint piece exists once. It began as cloth beneath the block printing tables in Sanganer, catching colour nobody planned. When it goes, there isn't another one.

The sale opens Sat 24th October.

https://designalchemycollective.com

21/10/2026

How to Style a Bold Cushion Without It Looking Like Too Much - Interior Designer Tips NZ

Interior designer Amanda Neill's three rules for styling a statement cushion in any room - when to use plain companions, how to pull from the room without matching it, and why you should always go bigger. Using DAC Painterly and underprint cushion covers as examples. Full guide on the blog.

https://designalchemycollective.com/blogs/news/how-to-style-a-statement-cushion-without-it-looking-like-too-much

20/10/2026

The printers wiped their hands on this cloth.

Between colour runs in the Jaipur print studio, the block printers wipe their hands on whatever cloth is nearby. Over a session, a day, a week - that cloth builds up something nobody designed. Layers of colour in patterns that cannot be planned and cannot be recreated.

We found it. We had it stitched into cushion covers. It became one of the most distinctive things in the entire DAC range.

Every piece is different. Every piece exists once.

https://designalchemycollective.com/collections/cushions

18/10/2026

Here is something most people do not know about how our pieces are made.

In Jaipur, before the block printing begins, a length of cloth is laid beneath the printing table. Its job is to catch every drop of excess dye that falls through from the fabric above. Layer upon layer builds up across weeks of printing - colours overlapping in ways nobody planned, nobody designed, nobody could repeat if they tried.

At exactly the right moment, before the cloth turns black from too much dye, it gets pulled. And then Mohini and the stitching village women begin: layering, quilting, hand-stitching it into something finished.

That is the fabric in every DAC quilt and cushion you see on our website. The full story is on the blog - link below.

https://designalchemycollective.com/blogs/collection-narratives/what-is-underprint-fabric-and-why-no-two-dac-pieces-are-ever-the-same