Joining together her love for travel and textiles, designer Jessika Madison-Kennedy wanted to create a collection that focused on introducing handmade Indian textiles to a broader audience in a way that is environmentally sustainable and socially responsible. Using natural organic fibers and azo-free dyes, she sources materials from small block printers and weaving communities from all around India.

The name Bonbibi is shared with that of a forest goddess that originated in the Sunderbans, a remote area in West Bengal and where the project began. Like Bonbibi the goddess who protects those that enter the mangrove forest from tigers, Bonbibi

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