Ayman Anika
By Ayman Anika

Photo: Sheikh Suraiya Rehnuma

The story of 6 Yards Story did not begin with a trend forecast or a business blueprint. It began with the rhythmic clatter of handlooms in Sirajganj, heard the moment one steps into the village.

For Lora Khan, owner of 6 Yards Story, that sound was familiar. "For us, that sound means we have reached home," she says. But when she brought her architecture classmates there during a wedding, she realised how differently others perceived it.

y friends were fascinated," she recalls. "They kept asking what that sound was, how weaving worked, where the sarees came from."

What felt ordinary to her carried novelty and value for them.