Jaya Bhatt, Ruchi Tripathi, Shabnam Ramaswamy, Vaishnavi Kambadur
This discussion will examine themes like togetherness in making kantha and how urban and rural practitioners or designers are reinventing textile practices in our daily lives by empowering women and adopting slow fashion production. It features founders of the clothing brand Indigene, Ruchi Tripathi and Jaya Bhatt as well as social activist Shabnam Ramaswamy in conversation with Vaishnavi Kambadur, assistant curator at MAP.
Curated as part of the programming around the online exhibition Painted Stitches, Woven Stories.
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