Dori — ink that wears like jewellery
Indian embroidery, reborn as fine-line ink that sits on the skin like a thread of gold.
Selected Dori work
Embroidery motifs, drawn in single fine lines
The hand behind the thread
Utsavi Jhaveri is a Mumbai fine-line tattoo artist working under the name border.line.tattoos — translating the language of Indian embroidery into ink.
Her signature is Dori: the thread. The borders, knots and running stitches that edge a sari or a dupatta, redrawn as a single continuous line that rests on the skin like a fine piece of jewellery. Each design is built around the wearer — placement, flow and scale considered the way a tailor reads a body before the first cut.
Outside the studio she self-publishes a zine, Gali ki Sher — a personal extension of the same hand, the same line, the same point of view.
The 1:1 consultation
A paid, one-on-one design session
Before any needle touches skin, we sit down — just the two of us — to design a piece that is entirely yours. A Dori is not picked off a wall. It is drawn for you, in conversation, line by line.
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We talkThe motif, the meaning, the placement. We look at the embroidery, textiles and stories you want carried in the line.
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I drawA custom Dori design, made to sit on your body the way a thread of jewellery would — flow, scale and balance worked out together.
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You approveThe final design is shared before the session. Nothing goes on the skin until it feels exactly right to you.