Journal
Notes from the coast
The world of the atelier, told in chapters: the house, the island, the making, the pieces.
IThe house
1 July 2026
The house on the sea
Where every Andaman Thread piece is made, a teak house that has stood over the water in Koh Lanta Old Town for a hundred years.
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28 June 2026
The house before us
The teak house stood over the sea for a century before a single stitch was worked in it. What we know of its first hundred years, and what we owe them.
Read →IIThe island
24 June 2026
A slow morning in Koh Lanta Old Town
The quiet side of Koh Lanta, the old town's wooden waterfront, where the light and the tide set the pace of the day.
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24 June 2026
The crossing
Every piece begins with a ferry and a bridge: how you reach Koh Lanta, what the channel teaches, and why the house never moved somewhere easier.
Read →IIIThe making
3 July 2026
Making through the monsoon
From May to October the rain runs the atelier: what the wet season does to cotton, to colour, and to the pace of a piece being made.
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2 July 2026
How an Andaman Thread bag is made
From a coil of cotton cord to a finished bag in Sunisa's hands: how each Andaman Thread piece is made to order in a teak house over the sea.
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1 July 2026
The flower on the table
There is almost always a frangipani on the work table. Why the house keeps one there, and how it became the charm.
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18 June 2026
Caring for your handcrafted bag
Simple ways to keep a handcrafted cotton bag looking beautiful for years, cleaning, storing, and keeping its shape.
Read →IVThe pieces
2 July 2026
Choosing a colourway
How to choose a colourway from a palette taken from Koh Lanta itself: the flats at low tide, driftwood, monsoon clouds, and one note of rust.
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2 July 2026
Ten new pieces, photographed over the sea
The collection grows from three pieces to thirteen: a deep cobalt honeycomb tote, a leather-handled shopper, a shell-stitch crossbody, and an open-net sling in five colourways, all shot on the deck of the old house.
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2 July 2026
The blue before the rain
How The Monsoon came to be: a honeycomb stitch, a footed base, and the exact colour of the Andaman an hour before the storm arrives.
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2 July 2026
What one of a kind really means
What one of a kind means at Andaman Thread: colour graded by eye, the signature of a single maker, and the numbered Founding Twenty-Five.
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2 July 2026
We never discount
Why an Andaman Thread price only ever moves upward, and why the people who trust the house first are never the ones who pay more.
Read →Prefer the loops themselves? The Stitch Library shows every stitch of the house up close. And every piece that has found its home rests in the Archive.