Woven, thread by thread jajim
An independent magazine on music, fashion, art, culture and the small wonders of everyday life.
Jajim is an independent magazine. We borrowed our name from a Persian flatweave — humble, striped, made at home — because we think the best stories are made the same way: slowly, side by side, in colour.
The name
A jajim is a striped flatweave, usually wool, common in the homes of Iran. It is not the famous Persian carpet. It is the quieter cousin — softer, simpler, the kind of thing a grandmother throws over a sofa or spreads on the ground for a picnic. What we love about it is its honesty. Every stripe is its own colour. Nothing pretends to be anything else.
What we publish
We publish slowly. A few stories a week, never more. Interviews with people who make things by hand. Essays on small subjects taken seriously. Photo essays of strangers being themselves. Recipes from kitchens that do not have brand deals.
We are not a news site. We are not in a hurry. If a story is not better on the second read, we do not run it.
"Every stripe is its own colour. Nothing pretends to be anything else."
Sections
Faces — portraits, profiles, the people behind the work.
Currents — books, cities, films, ideas.
Encounters — places, nights, journeys, things lived.
Signals — the small shifts and early signs of what's next.
Threads — clothes as language, closets as archives.
Contributors
We are a small group of writers, photographers and editors scattered across a few different cities. We pay our contributors. We answer our email, eventually. If you would like to write for us, send a short pitch to pitches@jajim.magazine.
Support
Jajim is reader-funded. There are no banner ads, no pop-ups, no autoplay anything. If you like what we do, the most useful thing is to subscribe to the Sunday letter and forward a story to someone you like.