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"Living art': Carmel Valley mom creates Keseriya, block-printed linen company"
The San Diego Union-Tribune / Del Mar Times — June 30, 2026

This June, reporter Karen Billing sat down with Deepti Jain to talk about Keseriya, table linens made the traditional way, a process unchanged for centuries: one wooden block, one layer of color, hung to dry, repeated again and again, until eight days later, a single tablecloth is finished. The first collection, Amer, takes its palette of saffron, jade, and ivory from the carved stone of Amer Fort in Jaipur. It's already finding its way into homes, including her own son's wedding, and the shelves of The June House in Carlsbad, with Roam Homeware in La Jolla to follow.

The story traces the years before Keseriya, too. Twenty-five spent building Anokiwave alongside her husband, and the quieter search that came after: a wish, in an increasingly automated world, to make something slow, human, and worth gathering around.

"It's living art.

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