The Maker
I’m Shyam, one maker, working alone in Hyderabad, India. There is no team, no factory floor, no line. When you commission a piece from Tassma, one person drafts it, cuts it, stitches it, and finishes it, from the first measurement to the last burnished edge.
01 · Why one
I don’t replicate. Every piece is made once, for one body.
A corset that fits is not a corset that was sized down from a chart. It is drafted to your measurements and re-worked until it sits the way it should. Working alone is the only way I know to hold that standard: one build on the bench at a time, roughly six weeks each, nothing rushed to make room for the next.
02 · The material
Indian leather, sourced direct.
I work only with Indian leather, sourced direct from tanneries I’ve known for years. I pick hides graded for structure. The panels have to hold tension and keep their line for a decade, not a season.
03 · The hand
Cut by hand. Stitched by hand. Finished by hand.
Every panel is cut to the drafted pattern by hand. No CNC, no shortcuts. The seams are saddle-stitched, the edges burnished, the hardware set by the same pair of hands that drew the first line. Eight structures form the starting points; where you take yours from there is decided on a call, together, before a single cut is made.