About Us
Tantu is made by VVIS Tech. It grew out of an inventory and production system we build for a kalamkari manufacturer — a business where every design exists in a dozen colourways, where staff photograph stock on a phone in a warehouse, and where a returned parcel is somebody's afternoon.
That is where the idea came from. The photographs already existed, already labelled by part, because someone on the floor had to take them anyway. The gap was between having good photographs of cloth and having something a buyer would look at.
Generic try-on tools are built for Western tops and dresses. They handle a shirt well and a five-and-a-half-metre drape badly, because a saree is not a garment you put on a body — it is a length of cloth pleated, tucked and thrown in a specific order. Tantu starts from that, and from the assumption that the print must survive it.
It is a product in its own right. It serves the manufacturer it was born in, and it is built so it can serve anyone else without carrying their system along with it.
On a hand-painted saree, the pattern is not decoration on top of the garment — it is the thing being sold. Any tool that redraws it has failed, however good the picture looks.
Renders are kept so a design can be found again, re-run and compared. Deleting them is your decision, not a privacy policy's.
Every tool page carries its own limitation, and anything unbuilt is marked unbuilt. It is a slower way to sell and a much faster way to keep a buyer.
The exact prompt behind every render is visible and editable. If a result is good you should be able to see why, and repeat it.
Tantu is Sanskrit for thread — the single strand that everything woven is made from. It seemed like the right name for a tool whose whole argument is that the thread has to survive the process.