Sanctuary Living by Ramita Ahlawat — Handcrafted Home Textiles, Cushion Covers & Table Linen

Sanctuary Living is a conscious home textiles studio founded by Ramita Ahlawat, based in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Every printed pattern in the Sanctuary Living collection begins as a hand-painted artwork by the founder — original paintings that are then translated into textile prints, giving the brand a design identity rooted in artistic authorship rather than trend adoption. Combined with small-batch production, natural fabrics, and a considered balance of printed, embroidered, cross-stitched, and textured styles, Sanctuary Living produces home textiles that bring warmth, quiet luxury, and a distinctly handmade sensibility to modern Indian living spaces.

74 pieces. All in stock. Spanning cushion covers (53 pieces), table runners (10), table covers (7), and accessories (4) — across bedrooms, living rooms, dining rooms, and kitchens.

About Sanctuary Living — Art-to-Textile Design

The defining quality that sets Sanctuary Living apart in India's home textiles market is its design origin: every printed style begins as a hand-painted artwork created by founder Ramita Ahlawat. This is not a common production model. Most textile print studios source patterns from pattern libraries, license existing motifs, or adapt historical designs — processes that produce technically competent but aesthetically generic results. Sanctuary Living inverts this: the artwork comes first, the textile follows.

The process — hand-painting to print translation — means that each printed cushion cover or table runner in the collection carries the mark of an individual creative act. The brushstroke of the original painting survives in the final print as a quality of line that digitally generated or sourced patterns cannot replicate. The colour palette — the particular dusty roses, rhubarb reds, eucalyptus greens, soft blues, deep ochres, and mossy greens that define the Sanctuary Living aesthetic — is drawn directly from Ramita Ahlawat's painting practice, not from seasonal trend forecasting.

This founding methodology gives Sanctuary Living a genuine artistic identity: a consistent, recognisable design voice across a collection of 74 pieces that reads as a body of work rather than an assortment of individual textile products.

The Sanctuary Living Collection — Key Series & Pieces

The Mirage Scallop Series — Embroidered Velvet Cushion Covers

The Mirage Scallop series is the Sanctuary Living collection's most distinctive and design-resolved group — six velvet cushion covers in different colourways, each with a scalloped edge embroidered in a contrasting tone. The scallop edge (named after the scallop shell, Pecten maximus and related species, whose fan-shaped ribbed shell has been a central motif in decorative arts from the Baroque period onwards) is one of the most labour-intensive textile edge treatments — each arc is individually shaped and finished, producing a cover whose perimeter is a decorative object in its own right.

• Mirage Scallop Eucalyptus Cushion Cover — Forest green velvet with a cream scalloped embroidered edge. Eucalyptus (from the Greek eu: well + kalyptos: covered — referring to the operculum that covers the flower bud before it opens) — a colour named for the silvery blue-green of eucalyptus leaves, one of the most sought-after naturalistic greens in contemporary interior design.
• Mirage Scallop Apricot Cushion Cover — Blush pink velvet with a scalloped edge. Apricot (from the Arabic al-barquq, the fruit; the colour named for the warm peach-orange of the ripe apricot skin) — the softest and most diffuse of the Mirage Scallop colourways, suited to bedrooms and living rooms seeking warmth without saturation.
• Mirage Scallop Soft Blue Cushion Cover — Dusty blue velvet with an olive green scalloped edge. The combination of soft blue and olive green is a contemporary colour pairing that references both botanical and coastal environments — the colour of sea glass and dried herbs together.
• Mirage Scallop Moss Green Cushion Cover — Muted olive green velvet with blue and green embroidered scalloped edge. Moss (the non-vascular plant of the division Bryophyta, characterised by its capacity to grow on wet stone, tree bark, and forest floors) — a colour that carries the deep, organic quality of a living moss surface.
• Mirage Scallop Deep Ochre Cushion Cover — Mustard yellow velvet with a cream scalloped edge. Ochre (from the Greek ōkhra: pale yellow; a natural earth pigment — iron oxide, Fe₂O₃ — used in cave paintings since the Palaeolithic period, approximately 40,000 years ago, making it one of the oldest colouring materials in human history) — the most historically resonant colourway in the Mirage Scallop series.
• Mirage Scallop Rhubarb Cushion Cover — Rust-brown velvet with a scalloped trim. Rhubarb (Rheum rhabarbarum — a herbaceous perennial whose red stalks have been used in culinary traditions since ancient Chinese medicine; the colour named for the deep red-brown of the stalk's outer surface) — the most autumnal and grounded colourway in the series.

The Camellia Cross Stitch Series — Embroidered Floral Cushion Covers

The Camellia series introduces cross-stitch embroidery — one of the oldest and most universally practised needlework techniques, in which X-shaped stitches are arranged on a grid to form patterns and motifs. Cross-stitch (also called point de croix in French needlework tradition) has been documented in Chinese embroidery as early as the 6th–10th century CE, and in European samplers from the medieval period onwards. In the Camellia series, cross-stitch is used to render a central floral motif — the camellia, named after the Jesuit botanist Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706) who first documented this flowering plant from Southeast Asia for European botanical science.

• Camellia Rhubarb Cross Stitch Cushion Cover — Dusty rose velvet with beige embroidered floral motif and stitched edge.
• Camellia Teal Cross Stitch Cushion Cover — Teal blue velvet with cream central floral embroidery. Teal (named after the Eurasian teal duck, Anas crecca, whose distinctive eye stripe is a deep blue-green) — one of the most versatile mid-tones in contemporary Indian interior design.
• Camellia Eucalyptus Cross Stitch Cushion Cover — Dark green velvet with beige embroidered camellia and mustard border.
• Camellia Rose Cross Stitch Cushion Cover — Pink velvet with white central floral embroidery.

The Heather Cross Stitch Series — Ruffled & Embroidered Oblong Covers

The Heather series combines cross-stitch embroidery with ruffled trim — an oblong (lumbar) cushion cover format with a decorative floral embroidered panel and a contrasting ruffled edge. Heather (Calluna vulgaris — the flowering plant native to Scotland and Northern Europe, whose purple-pink flowers define the moorland landscape in late summer) — a colour name that references the romantic, soft-hued landscape of heath and moor.

• Heather Olive Cross Stitch Oblong Cushion Cover — Olive green with white floral embroidery and dusty blue-grey ruffle.
• Heather Rhubarb Cross Stitch Oblong Cushion Cover — Dusty rose velvet with pink and gold floral stripes and ruffled edge.
• Heather Baby Pink Cross Stitch Oblong Cushion Cover — Dusty pink with embroidered floral patterns and ruffled trim — the most delicate colourway in the series.

The Glow Velvet Series — Solid Velvet Cushion Covers

The Glow series is the simplest and most versatile grouping in the Sanctuary Living cushion range — solid velvet cushion covers in warm, saturated tones with piped or plain edges. Velvet (from the Old French veluet, related to the Latin villus: hair, shaggy cloth) is a woven textile with a distinctive dense, cut-pile surface. The pile of velvet — typically between 1–3mm height — is what produces the characteristic sheen-and-shadow effect: the cloth appears lighter when stroked one way and darker when stroked the opposite way, because the pile alternately reflects and absorbs light depending on its direction.

• Glow Sunset Velvet Cushion Cover — A warm sunset palette velvet cover — the gradient tones of dusk sky translated into a single colour textile.
• Glow Berry Velvet Cushion Cover — A plum-mauve velvet cover with tan leather piping. Berry (the botanical term for a simple fruit — the tomato, the grape, and the banana are all botanical berries — but in colour vocabulary, a deep purple-red evoking the colour of crushed black currant or blackberry) — a velvet colour of quiet richness.
• Glow Apricot Velvet Cushion Cover — A blush apricot velvet with matching piped edge — the entry-level price point in the collection and a soft, universally wearable accent colour.

The Fig & Holly Series — Velvet Pattern Covers

• Fig Rhubarb Velvet Cushion Cover — A checkered pattern in dark rhubarb red and beige velvet. Fig (Ficus carica — one of the first plants cultivated by humans, grown in the Middle East and Mediterranean from at least 9400 BCE; the colour named for the deep purpled-brown of a ripe fig's skin) — a check pattern in a tone that references both the fruit and the woodblock print tradition of Indian textile design.
• Fig Tan Brown Velvet Cushion Cover — The companion colourway — warm brown and cream velvet checker — the most neutral and versatile piece in the Fig series.
• Holly Rhubarb Striped Oblong Cushion Cover — A lumbar cover in vertical striped velvet in dusty rose and reddish-brown. Holly (Ilex aquifolium — the evergreen shrub most associated with winter festivals; the colour name referencing the deep red of holly berries against dark green foliage) — a striped oblong suited to layering across a larger sofa cushion arrangement.

Other Cushion Cover Series

• Jasper Ruffle Teal Cushion Cover — A dusty blue velvet centre with olive green ruffled border — the ruffle (a gathered or pleated strip of fabric sewn along an edge to create a soft, dimensional trim) as the primary decorative device.
• Ripple Rhubarb Oblong Cushion Cover — A rectangular lumbar cover with a dusty rose and dark brown wavy vertical stripe pattern from the founder's hand-painted artwork.
• Viola Forest Green Cotton Cushion Cover — Viola (the genus of flowering plants that includes violets and pansies, in the family Violaceae; also the bowed string instrument of the orchestra, lower in pitch than the violin) — a cotton cover in forest green for those who prefer the texture and breathability of cotton over velvet.
• Linea Ruffle Amber Cotton Cushion Cover — A ruffled cotton cover in amber tone. Linea (Italian: line) — a cover whose design language is defined by its clean linear ruffle trim.
• Rosalia Amber Linen Oblong Cushion Cover — A linen lumbar cover in amber. Linen (from the flax plant, Linum usitatissimum — one of the oldest cultivated plants, grown for fibre in ancient Egypt as early as 3000 BCE) — the most breathable and moisture-wicking natural textile fibre, valued for the quality of its surface texture and the way it softens with wash and use.
• Rosalia Dusty Rose Linen Oblong Cushion Cover — The dusty rose colourway of the Rosalia linen series.
• Sofia Forest Green Embroidered Cotton Cushion Cover — A cotton cushion cover in forest green with embroidered detail. Sofia (Greek: wisdom; also the capital of Bulgaria and one of the oldest cities in Europe) — an embroidered cover in a grounded, wisdom-green palette.
• Fiora Ivory Linen Lumbar Cushion Cover — A linen lumbar cover in ivory. Fiora (Italian: flower; also a river in Tuscany flowing through the Maremma region) — the most neutral and universally compatible piece in the cushion range, suited to any sofa or bed composition.

Table Runners — 10 Pieces

The Sanctuary Living table runner range is the clearest expression of the founder's artwork-to-textile process — the Rosabelle Chintz and Valley and Mirage series all carry printed patterns derived directly from Ramita Ahlawat's hand-painted compositions. A table runner (a length of fabric placed along the centre of a dining table) is the simplest and most impactful single purchase in the table textile vocabulary — it introduces colour, pattern, and material into the dining room composition without the commitment of a full tablecloth.

• Valley Rose Linen Table Runner — A linen table runner in a rose-toned valley floral print translated from the founder's hand-painted artwork.
• Valley Peach Linen Table Runner — The peach colourway of the Valley series — the warmest and most seasonally versatile tone in the group.
• Powder Blue Linen Table Runner — A linen runner in powder blue — a clean, minimal linen runner suited to dining rooms where a quiet colour accent is preferred over pattern.
• Checker Blue Linen Table Runner — A check-pattern linen runner in blue — the most traditional and graphic pattern in the Sanctuary Living table runner range.
• Mirage Pistachio Linen Table Runner — The Mirage print in a pistachio green palette — one of the most design-forward colourways in the table runner range.
• Mirage Sand Linen Table Runner — The Mirage print in sand — the most neutral and widely compatible colourway in the Mirage table runner series.
• Rosabelle Chintz Olive Table Runner — Chintz (from the Hindi chint: spotted cloth; the cotton textile printed with bright floral patterns, originally produced in India and exported to Europe from the 17th century onwards, where it became so fashionable that European countries periodically banned its import to protect domestic weaving industries) — the Rosabelle Chintz series is a direct reference to this Indian textile heritage, bringing the chintz print vocabulary into a contemporary linen table runner.
• Rosabelle Chintz Ochre Table Runner — The ochre colourway of the Rosabelle Chintz series.
• Rosabelle Chintz Teal Table Runner — The teal colourway — the most vivid and festive of the Rosabelle Chintz series, suited to Diwali table compositions and contemporary dining rooms seeking a strong colour statement.
• Poppy Ochre Table Runner — A poppy print in ochre — the poppy (Papaver rhoeas and related species) is one of the most iconic flowering plants in decorative arts, associated with Impressionist painting (Monet's Les Coquelicots, 1873), William Morris's wallpaper designs, and the Arts and Crafts movement. In ochre, the poppy print carries a warm, autumnal quality.

Table Covers — 7 Pieces

• Valley Rose Linen Table Cover — The Valley Rose print as a full table cover — the most complete festive or everyday dining table textile from the Sanctuary Living collection.
• Valley Peach Linen Table Cover — The Valley Peach in table cover format.
• Eden Rose Linen Table Cover — Eden (the Garden of Eden of Abrahamic tradition — a paradise of abundant plant life, flowing water, and untouched natural beauty) — a table cover whose rose print references the garden as the original model of cultivated beauty.
• Linea Ruffle Amber Cotton Table Cover — The Linea Ruffle in amber cotton as a full table cover — a table covering with the same decorative ruffle trim as the cushion cover series.
• Linea Ruffle Dusty Rose Cotton Table Cover — The dusty rose colourway of the Linea Ruffle table cover.
• Viola Ruffle Forest Green Cotton Table Cover — Forest green cotton with a ruffle trim — the most grounded and botanical colourway in the table cover range.
• Viola Ruffle Carmine Cotton Table Cover — Carmine (from the Arabic qirmiz: the kermes insect, Kermes vermilio, from which a red dye was extracted in the ancient Mediterranean world; the colour named for this deep, vivid red-crimson) — the most festive and vivid table cover in the Sanctuary Living range.

Table Napkins & Accessories — 4 Pieces

• Mosaic Blush Cotton Table Napkins (Set of 6) — Six cotton table napkins in a mosaic blush pattern. A complete set of six allows for a full dining table of four to six covers — the most practical purchase in the Sanctuary Living table textile range.
• Mosaic Sand Cotton Table Napkins (Set of 6) — Six cotton napkins in the sand colourway — the most neutral and widely applicable colour in the Mosaic series.
• Sand Velvet Napkin Rings (Set of 4) — Four velvet napkin rings in sand — the finishing touch to a Sanctuary Living table composition, pairing the ring's velvet texture with the linen napkin's natural weave.
• Rhubarb Velvet Napkin Rings (Set of 4) — The rhubarb colourway — the most colour-forward napkin ring option for a festive or autumnal table.

The Sanctuary Living Colour Vocabulary

The Sanctuary Living palette is one of the most immediately recognisable and consistent in India's home textiles market. Rather than following seasonal colour trend cycles, the palette is derived directly from Ramita Ahlawat's painting practice — which means it carries the internal logic of an artist's colour language rather than the external logic of trend forecasting.

The primary palette: Rhubarb (deep red-brown, the dominant warm tone), Eucalyptus (silvery blue-green), Dusty Rose (warm, desaturated pink), Ochre (deep golden yellow), Teal (blue-green), Moss Green (organic deep green), Apricot (soft warm peach), Forest Green (saturated botanical green), Sand and Ivory (neutral anchors).

These are not trend colours. They are the colours of specific natural objects — the rhubarb stalk, the eucalyptus leaf, the ochre earth, the moss on a stone — named precisely for their source. This naming convention itself signals the brand's orientation: toward the natural world as a colour authority rather than toward the fashion industry's seasonal palette releases.

Textile Techniques in the Sanctuary Living Collection

Print from original artwork. The foundation technique of the brand: Ramita Ahlawat's hand-painted compositions are digitised and translated into textile prints. The quality of the brushstroke — its varying pressure, the bleeding of pigment at the edges, the imprecision of the painted line — survives in the print as a texture quality that distinguishes these prints from patterns generated algorithmically or sourced from pattern libraries.

Cross-stitch embroidery. Used in the Camellia and Heather series: an X-shaped stitch worked on a fabric ground to form patterns. Cross-stitch is a counted embroidery technique — each stitch is placed on a specific intersection of the fabric's weave structure, requiring the embroiderer to count threads and maintain consistent stitch tension across the piece.

Scallop edge embroidery. Used in the Mirage Scallop series: the arc-shaped decorative edge is individually shaped and embroidered, requiring skilled finishing work on each piece to maintain the scallop's consistent curve and proportion.

Ruffle trim. Used in the Linea, Viola, Heather, and Jasper series: a gathered strip of fabric sewn along the outer edge of the cushion cover or table textile to create a dimensional, decorative border. The gathering ratio (the length of fabric before gathering versus after) determines the ruffle's fullness — a higher ratio produces a more generous, layered ruffle.

Natural fabrics. Across the collection: cotton (a natural cellulosic fibre from the boll of Gossypium plants, the world's most widely grown textile crop), linen (from the flax plant, Linum usitatissimum), and velvet (a cut-pile woven fabric traditionally in silk, now more commonly in cotton, polyester, or viscose blends). The use of natural fibres produces textiles that breathe, absorb moisture, and improve in hand-feel with washing — qualities that synthetic alternatives cannot replicate.

How to Style a Sanctuary Living Composition

The sofa cushion arrangement. Combine cushion covers across three design registers: a scallop-edged velvet (Mirage series) as the primary statement, a cross-stitch embroidered piece (Camellia or Heather) as the secondary, and a solid velvet (Glow series) as the ground. Three cushion types, two to three colourways from the same palette — the Sanctuary Living colour vocabulary is internally coherent enough that pieces from different series compose naturally together.

The dining table composition. A table runner from the Valley or Rosabelle Chintz series down the centre of the dining table, Mosaic cotton napkins at each cover, and Velvet Napkin Rings as the finishing detail — a complete Sanctuary Living table textile composition that works equally for everyday use and festive occasions.

The bedroom layering. A Rosalia or Fiora linen oblong cushion across the back of the bed against standard cotton pillowcases, with a Mirage Scallop velvet cushion as the foreground accent — the oblong and square combination that is the most common and visually effective bedroom cushion arrangement.

Sanctuary Living as Gifting

All 74 Sanctuary Living products are tagged New Arrivals and available across multiple rooms — bedroom (53 pieces), living room (53), dining room (21), and kitchen (17). The breadth of room applications makes the Sanctuary Living range one of the most versatile gifting categories at The Living Influence:

Housewarming. A Mirage Scallop velvet cushion cover, a Rosabelle Chintz table runner, or a set of Mosaic cotton napkins presents as a considered, design-led housewarming gift at accessible price points — textiles that immediately change how a new home feels.

Festive gifting. The Rosabelle Chintz Teal Table Runner, the Viola Ruffle Carmine Table Cover, and the Rhubarb Velvet Napkin Rings are the collection's most festive-palette pieces — suited to Diwali table dressing and gifting.

Personal gifting. A cushion cover or linen oblong in the recipient's known colour preference — the format that makes a personal, tasteful gift at every budget level in the collection.

Shop Sanctuary Living by Ramita Ahlawat — Handcrafted Home Textiles Online in India

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