New Delhi: Over 100 textiles by 75 prominent designers, artisans and craftspeople are on display at an exhibition here organised by Ministry of Culture and National Museum in collaboration with Abheraj Baldota Foundation celebrating 75 years of India’s birth as an independent nation.
Curated by Lavina Baldota, the exhibition highlights the craftsmanship and ecological preservation as its key feature and brings together diverse textile traditions of the country.
On view are textiles created with processes of hand weaving, embroidery, resist-dyeing, printing, painting and appliqué, among other forms of yarn and fabric manipulation.
The fibres employed in these commissions range from local varieties such as Kandu and Kala cotton, mulberry and wild silks, camel and sheep wool, goat and yak hair.
The exhibition’s curatorial vision seeks to promote the ideals of organic and slow consumerism in defining a nation such as India’s self worth, and the inherent collective, collaborative efforts which are required to push towards such goals.
The exhibition was inaugurated by Secretary, Ministry of Culture and continue till 20th September, 2022
