Elahi Embroidery Stores

Elahi Embroidery Stores has been part of the Dharavi landscape for a long time now. You can find us at Shop No A 172 in the Saibaba Na area. If you’ve ever walked through Dharavi, you know it’s a place where everyone is making something. Our shop is small and packed with more thread and fabric than you might think could fit in such a space. The light isn't always the best, but our hands know where everything is. We spend our days hunched over fabric, working on patterns that take a lot of patience. It’s noisy outside with the kids playing and the motorbikes zooming past, but inside, it’s mostly the sound of needles and the occasional radio playing. We don't really do fancy advertisements. Most of our customers come because their fathers or uncles used to come to us. We’ve got stacks of finished work in the corners and bags of raw materials waiting to be used. Sometimes we run out of a specific color and have to scramble to find it in the market nearby. It’s a bit messy, and there’s always dust from the cloth, but it’s an honest living. We take pride in the fact that we’ve stayed in this same spot for so many years while the city changed around us. It’s just how we live and work every single day.