Tanchenki mandala cushions arranged on a leather sofa
Tanchenki · Mandala home art

Mandala cushions.
Heritage at home.

Nepalese mandala family heritage, translated into printed and foil-finished home textiles. Custom design and processing by our team.

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Ivory linen and silk with gold thread

Why collectors buy from us

Two houses. One standard of making.

Mandala home art and Japanese Bizen-Yaki share our respect for handwork. Confirm the exact finish, measurements and delivery with our team; design, processing and customisation are available.

Sourced at origin

Okayama kilns and Himalayan studios, visited in person.

One-of-a-kind

Natural Bizen kiln variations and carefully finished mandala textiles.

Personal service

Photos of your exact piece before it ships, by phone or WhatsApp.

Wood-fired climbing kiln burning at night

Fourteen days of fire

The flame writes the decoration.

Red pine is fed into the noborigama around the clock for two weeks. Ash melts onto the bare clay, flame paths scorch the shoulders, and straw wrapped around each piece leaves crimson hidasuki lines. Nothing is painted. Nothing can be repeated.

1,000

Years of the Bizen kiln

14

Days of continuous red-pine firing

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Pieces that emerge as Ao-Bizen blue

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Glaze, lead or cadmium used

“The potter shapes the clay. The fire decides everything else.”

On the philosophy of Bizen-Yaki

Unglazed stoneware teapot and cup with rising steam

The science of taste

Why tea tastes rounder from Bizen.

Fired at 1,200–1,300°C without glaze, the wall of a Bizen vessel keeps a network of micro-pores. Air moves slowly through it, oxidising harsh tannins in tea and softening the edge of sake. Iron in the Okayama clay also binds part of the bitterness. Tea masters have used this since the Muromachi period — it is chemistry, not folklore.

Himalayan monastery and prayer flags at sunrise

Where the patterns come from

Nepalese family heritage, brought into daily life.

Our source imagery comes from a Nepalese hand-painted mandala family tradition. The centre represents the inner self, the circles the universe. The outward and returning movement evokes harmony and wholeness. Our printed home textiles are not hand-painted thangkas or ritual objects.

Warm ivory living room styled with cushions

Style your space

19.69 × 19.69 in (50 × 50 cm) of home art.

Heavyweight covers with concealed zips, sized for standard 50 × 50 cm inserts. Layer two gold-foiled mandalas against plain linen, or set a single medallion at the centre of a long sofa. Machine-friendly, made for daily use — not for a display shelf.

Inside the atelier

Twelve short films from the workshop floor

Screen frames being aligned, foil being pressed, covers being cut and checked. Nothing staged.

Potter's hands shaping clay on a wheel

The people behind the work

Small workshops. Named hands.

We buy directly from family kilns in Imbe and from a Himalayan textile studio we have worked with for years. No middlemen, no white-label factories. When you ask who made a piece, we can tell you — and show you the film of it being made.

Cream gift box with gold ribbon and kraft paper

Gifting & delivery

Wrapped to be given. Tracked to your door.

Every order leaves in protective cream packaging with a card describing the piece and its maker. Bizen ware is double-boxed with foam corners. Worldwide shipping with tracking, plus seven-day returns for eligible unused stock covers under the written terms and remedies for defects. Custom orders cannot be cancelled after confirmation.

Design · Processing · Customisation

Made around your brief.

Our team can design, process and customise mandala home textiles to your requirements, from a personal room scheme to wholesale, private-label and OEM projects.

01 / Design

Share your artwork, colour palette, room photographs and intended use. Our team develops the layout and textile specification with you.

02 / Sample

Confirm size, fabric, print placement, heat-transfer or hand-block foil finish, piping, insert option and packaging against a sample and written quotation.

03 / Processing & production

After written approval, the team prints, foils, cuts, stitches and inspects the agreed design. Quantity, lead time and delivery are confirmed individually.

Speak to a person

One number. Phone or WhatsApp.

Ask for photographs of the exact piece in stock, request a wholesale price list, or send us a mandala brief for OEM production. Richard Jiang — General Manager, Overseas Client Care answers personally.

Client care hours

Mon – Sun, 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM Pacific Time (PST)

Irving Li — Overseas Support, 8:00 PM – 5:00 AM PST