Tag: sustainable

Amina Bibi – The Kantha Katha

August 6th, 2021 • admin

The award winning Kantha artisan. She was married to a guy who was visually challenged. She used her skills to bring up two boys of whom one has a Govt job and one has joined the army. Empowerment of the artisan!

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Kantha Katha

August 5th, 2020 • admin

Kantha literally means rags. Old sarees stacked together and stitched over with a running stitch. Super soft, mother’s sarees, sarees with all the careworn smells and emotions of a mothers love filters through. Children know surely and instinctitively, their mother’s touch, her breath, her heartbeat. My sister always slept with my ma’s saree clutched in […]

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Revolution to Liberation

August 5th, 2021 • admin

Fashion is sexy, addictive exclusive and fast moving. Sustainability is slowness, care, it is  flourishing responsible. The fashion industry until very recently has not been very sustainable. We are drowning in textiles. Sales have increased dramatically in the last 20 years. Do you know that you have 4 times the no of clothes than your […]

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Sustainable Fashion Insights

August 5th, 2020 • admin

Fashion is sexy, addictive exclusive and fast moving. Sustainability is slowness, care, it is  flourishing responsible. The fashion industry until very recently has not been very sustainable. We are drowning in textiles. Sales have increased dramatically in the last 20 years. Do you know that you have 4 times the no of clothes than your […]

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The Art of Spinning – At it – Aarushi Taparia

August 6th, 2021 • admin

The Box Charkha used by Gandhi in prison makes it convenient to spin wherever you are. Spin yarn, up and down, round and about, intuitive movements to stop the yarn from breaking. Therapeutic! Coordinated movements. Start em young

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The Art of spinning on a Charkha – Sharon tries her hand at it

August 6th, 2021 • admin

The Box Charkha used by Gandhi in prison makes it convenient to spin wherever you are. Spin yarn, up and down, round and about, intuitive movements to stop the yarn from breaking. Therapeutic!

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The Khadi Spirit

August 5th, 2021 • admin

The Khadi Spirit – A way of life Khadi the handmade handspun textile owes its revival to the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi. He was the one who saw its potential as a tool to being self-reliant, independent and bringing villages back to life. In his words: ‘The spinning wheel represents to me the hope of […]

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The Right Way

August 5th, 2021 • admin

I grew up an idealist and critical of the Mahatma. His attitude towards Kasturba and son piqued me. His Experiments with truth with Manu and Abha riled me. I read somewhere that it cost a fortune to keep him living in poverty, I felt he favoured Nehru and negotiated an unfair deal for our Independence. […]

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The Story of Khadi

August 6th, 2021 • admin

It began with Khadi demanding Swadeshi to restore the Indian traditions to become self reliant. Arup Rakshit of MGGS Sutrakara working at the grassroots with farmers talks of the How Why Where When of desi cotton The Charkha, the wheel of life turns and the spindles draw out the thread from bolls of cotton. Up […]

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