No Indian festival begins until the marigolds arrive. Weddings, poojas, shop openings, the front of the family scooter in October. Tagetes erecta, if we are being precise, and we are always being precise, has been on ceremony duty in this country for four centuries and has never once missed a booking.

Here it reports for Raksha Bandhan: a marigold rakhi in festival orange, a seed paper greeting card, and roli chawal pockets in cotton marble paper. Every paper piece is handmade...

No Indian festival begins until the marigolds arrive. Weddings, poojas, shop openings, the front of the family scooter in October. Tagetes erecta, if we are being precise, and we are always being precise, has been on ceremony duty in this country for four centuries and has never once missed a booking.

Here it reports for Raksha Bandhan: a marigold rakhi in festival orange, a seed paper greeting card, and roli chawal pockets in cotton marble paper. Every paper piece is handmade seed paper, upcycled cotton scrap with seeds pressed inside.

After the festival, return the marigold to the earth it came from: soak, plant in the coir pot provided, water with patience. It sprouts into herbs, flowers or vegetables, depending on the batch.

The flower that starts every ceremony now gets to finish one.

Inside the kit: one marigold seed paper rakhi on a plantable tag, one seed paper greeting card, roli and chawal pockets in cotton handmade marble paper, one coir pot with lid, a cocopeat coin and a cow dung coin.

Materials: upcycled cotton scrap seed paper, cotton marble paper, water-soluble ink, coir pot, cocopeat, cow dung coin. Handcrafted in Agra, solar-powered workshop.