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Scripting a sari
- Updated: December 8, 2016
Co-founders Mani Chinnaswamy and Vijayalakshmi Nachiar during their studio in Pollachi, Tamil Nadu
If you’re penetrating to on spotting scriptures etched on slab walls of ancient temples in Tamil Nadu in Mumbai, conduct to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) on Friday. No, they are not being flown down as artefacts, though seem on handwoven string sarees that make their approach from Ethicus studio, a tolerable farm-to-fashion beginning formed in Pollachi, nearby Coimbatore, as partial of a two-day exhibit.
“We compressed, overlapped and layered a Tamil book to form a texture, that was used in a weaving of a saris,” shares 42-year-old Vijayalakshmi Nachiar, who launched Ethicus with her husband, Mani Chinnaswamy in 2009, with a aim to revitalise internal hand-weaving traditions. The twin works with internal artisans, who use traditional, handloom-weaving techniques. The cost tab of any product also includes a sketch of a weaver who has done it.
Bird motifs desirous by Gond wall art on a pallu
The muster facilities 200 saris from a label’s latest collections — Ballad of Blossoms, Gond: A Textural Saga and Vilay: A Fusion Drama. Each square is labelled between Rs 4,000 and Rs 35,000. Offering a sniff of English summers, a Ballad Of Blossoms is a floral collection featuring a multiple of flowers like rose, iris, begonia, poppy, daffodil and H2O lily. “We have incorporated a multiple of their leaves and other elements of a garden like a picket fence, gravel, H2O and garden apparatus into a design. To Indianise a theme, we have used Tamil book texture,” explains Nachiar.
A sari with floral motifs from a Ballad of Blossoms collection
The Gond collection is desirous by a wall art of a clan belonging to tools of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. The motifs embody flora and fauna, as good as figurines intent in chores deputy of their genealogical life and culture. Meanwhile, Vilay is a alloy of normal and complicated layouts interplayed with geometrical motifs. Stoles and throws are also partial of a collection.
Compressed Tamil book used as a hardness in a root motif
The string for a saris has been sourced from Appachi Ecologic Cotton, a association that has been concerned in a agreement tillage of ecological string from Kabini in Karnataka given 2005. It works with over 800 farmers covering around 2,000 acres of land to grow really excellent and additional prolonged tack cotton. “We use this string in all a products. Handloom weaving in a vapid process. For instance, before we even start weaving, artisans bucket a chronicle on a dawn and hand-knot any thread to emanate a sari patterns. There are about 2,400 threads and this process, itself takes about 3 days,” she sums up.
ON: Dec 9 and 10, 10 am to 7 pm
AT: Coomaraswamy Hall, CSMVS, MG Road, Fort.
CALL: 9879517477