TOKYO CHOWK
Indian street life, laid across Tokyo's quiet order. A collection of hand-knotted carpets that treats the crossing, the cart and the kerb as home.
Where the bazaar crosses the boulevard
"What we see every day, we often cease to see."
The street has always had its own sense of beauty. In the hands of its vendors, colour meets colour, pattern finds pattern, and the ordinary arranges itself with an instinct no school could teach.
Tokyo Chowk begins by looking again. At the familiar, the overlooked, and the beauty that was there all along.
Five designs,
laid on
the crossing
Hand-knotted in Mirzapur. Each carpet credits the street trade that inspired it — provenance woven into the label.
Tokyo Chowk
6 x 4 ft– 10 x 8 ft
6 x 4 ft– 10 x 8 ft
6 x 4 ft– 10 x 8 ft
6 x 4 ft– 10 x 8 ft
6 x 4 ft– 10 x 8 ft
6 x 6 ft– 10 x 10 ft
6 x 4 ft– 10 x 8 ft
6 x 4 ft– 10 x 8 ft
6 x 4 ft– 10 x 8 ft
6 x 4 ft– 10 x 8 ft
6 x 4 ft– 9 x 6 ft
6 x 4 ft– 9 x 6 ft
6 x 4 ft– 10 x 8 ft
6 x 4 ft– 10 x 8 ft
6 x 4 ft– 10 x 8 ft
6 x 4 ft– 12 x 9 ft
6 x 4 ft– 12 x 9 ft
6 x 4 ft– 12 x 9 ft
6 x 4 ft– 12 x 9 ft
6 x 4 ft– 12 x 9 ft
6 x 4 ft– 9 x 6 ft
The uncredited stylists of India
Every design in Tokyo Chowk begins with a person, not a pattern. These are the trades whose instinctive colour theory shaped the collection — credited here, and on every woven label.
Some carry bags, she carries the sky. With one bunch of balloons the whole crossing feels a little lighter.
Suman
Fizz first, questions later. Marble bottles, summer afternoons and a little sparkle with every pop.
Lekhraj
Before the city hits snooze for the third time, He's already done half his route. Early mornings have a familiar face.
Milkman - Heeralal
Woven where the street meets the loom
The same instinct that stacks fruit into pyramids guides the hands at our Mirzapur looms. Every Tokyo Chowk carpet is hand-knotted by artisans whose colour sense is inherited, not taught — the street's logic, translated into wool and silk.
A share of every Tokyo Chowk sale supports street-vendor welfare initiatives.
1920
The year our looms began in Mirzapur
150+
Knots per square inch, tied by hand
14
Designs in the Tokyo Chowk collection
1
1Provenance line woven into every label.
交 差 点 で お 会 い し ま し ょ う
Meet us at the crossing
Bring a little chaos of the Chowk into the calm of your home.
Discover the collection here or visit your nearest Obeetee Experience Centre.
