What is the difference between the Fab Soft Quilted and the Fab Quilted jackets?

The lines differ in structure and function. The Fab Soft Quilted jackets are soft jackets with light, thin quilting, designed to wrap the body without adding bulk — ideal as a mid-layer or a transitional-season jacket. The Fab Quilted jackets have more structured quilting and are all reversible: they can be worn on both sides, offering two different patterns in a single garment. The Soft and the reversible Quilted together cover a full range of patterns.

How does the reversibility of the Fab Quilted Indian jackets work?

Every Fab Quilted quilted jacket is constructed by joining two layers of cotton printed with different patterns, stitched together through the quilting. The through-stitching holds the two sides together and creates the quilted motif. Buttons, pockets and finishes are designed to work on both sides. Simply turn the jacket inside out to obtain a completely different garment in colour and pattern.

How do you wash an Indian quilted cotton jacket?

We recommend hand-washing in cold water with a gentle soap, or machine-washing at 30°C on a delicate cycle with a low spin. Do not wring the jacket: the quilting could lose its shape. Dry flat on a towel in the shade, reshaping by hand. Iron at medium heat on the reverse side. Quilted cotton maintains its consistency over time and improves in softness after the first washes.

Are Fabindia Roma women’s Indian jackets heavy?

No, lightness is a defining characteristic of these Indian jackets. The padding between the two layers of cotton is minimal — a thin interlining that adds warmth without weight. The Fab Soft Quilted jackets in particular are conceived as soft jackets to wear with ease, foldable and easy to tuck into a cotton bag. The Fab Quilted reversible jackets have a slightly more supportive structure but still remain lightweight jackets.

How do you recognise the artisanal quality of Indian cotton jackets?

The marks of artisanal craftsmanship are visible to the naked eye. In the block print, you can see the subtle variations in pressure and colour between one impression and the next of the wooden block. In the quilting, the stitching follows lines traced by hand by an artisan, with small irregularities that a machine would never produce. The cotton itself has a different hand from industrial fabric: it is more alive, with a slightly irregular weave that absorbs light naturally. Every soft quilted jacket is a unique piece.

Women’s Indian Jackets in Quilted Cotton

Jackets

Turn a jacket inside out and find yourself with an entirely new piece: it is the simple, age-old pri...

Turn a jacket inside out and find yourself with an entirely new piece: it is the simple, age-old principle of reversibility, carried on the shoulders in hand-printed block print cotton with lightweigh...

The women’s Indian jackets in the Fab Soft Quilted line are quilted with a thin padding that follows the body without stiffening it. The Pomegranade soft quilted cotton jacket opens the series with its bold motif, followed by the Sahara soft block print cotton jacket in sandy tones. The Fiore Tibet jacket, the Kabir jacket and the Butterfly jacket are variants of the same soft model, each with a different block print pattern that defines its character.

The women’s Indian jackets in the Fab Quilted line stand out for their reversibility: every jacket offers two patterns in a single garment. The Diana reversible quilted cotton jacket, the Louis jacket and the Elisabeth jacket take the quilting to a more structured level, with stitching that traces geometries across the fabric. Two women’s Indian jackets for the price of one, thanks to the double hand-printed face.

Women’s Indian jackets layer harmoniously over Indian shirts for women in printed cotton, creating layers of artisanal patterns. They are also worn over a kurta in Indian cotton for a more structured look, or paired with an Indian cotton bag and a wool shawl when the temperature drops.

Every women’s Indian jacket is born from the union of two artisanal gestures: hand printing and quilting. First the cotton is printed by hand with carved wooden blocks, then the two layers of fabric are stitched together along lines that enhance the design. At the boutique in Via del Banco di Santo Spirito 40, Fabindia Roma presents these Indian jackets as garments to wear and to turn, discovering a different side of the same material each time.