Nayaab brings 23 vogue manufacturers which are reviving heritage textile methods to Chennai 

A group by Divya Seth
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A paean to the heritage textile crafts of India, the thirteenth version of Nayaab — a retrospective that can make its strategy to Chennai on October 3 — places the highlight on dyeing, printing and weaving methods like shibori, bandhini, jamdani and kalamkaari. This time, the two-day exhibit brings 23 manufacturers to the Welcomhotel By ITC, Cathedral Street. “We now have at all times stored the exhibit small and intimate whereas focussing on pure materials; that continues to be our precedence this yr too. Nonetheless, there are new additions, like an set up on the exhibition,” says textile revivalist Rupa Sood, who can also be the founding father of Nayaab.

Kalamkari by Kalam Shastra
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The exhibition will function manufacturers that Nayaab has shared an extended affiliation with, alongside new manufacturers, which, Rupa says, present up to date designs interpreted with indigenous textiles and revived with methods which are fading away. “We additionally wish to rope in manufacturers who’re working with communities of craftspeople. We now have been working with Urvashi Kaur, EKA, Taika, Kora, Sartorial, Weavers Studio and Divya Sheth from our early days. Ka-Sha, Kalam Shastra, Ode to Odd, Aikeyah, Urbania Jaipur, Moksh, Soham Dave and Naari Shakti are new additions,” says Rupa.

A design by Ka-Sha
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On the primary day, the exhibition will host a chat on the subject, Reworking: Cosmopolitan Textiles, by Ritu Sethi — the founder-trustee of the Craft Revival Belief and editor of World InCH, the web worldwide journal of intangible cultural heritage — at 10.30am.

Although the retrospective showcases clothes and textile wall artwork, it’ll additionally show an set up for the primary time. “Kalam Shastra is the revival of the age-old method kalamkari by Tilak Reddy and he’s developing a particular set up utilizing kalamkari textile to show the intricacies and variety of colors and motifs used,” informs Rupa.

Naari Shakti has been supporting a girls’s collective in Okhla basti they usually make bracelets with jute and metal
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Speaking about different manufacturers on the exhibit, she factors in direction of Naari Shakti. “This model has been supporting a girls’s collective in Okhla basti they usually make bracelets with jute and metal,” she provides. A few of her high picks from the retrospective embody Ka-Sha for upcycling, recycling, mending and repairing clothes and indigenous textiles; Studio Medium and Urbania Jaipur for his or her shibori dyeing method and Divya Sheth for its ajrak, kalamkari and chintz. “It took us practically six months to curate the edit,” says Ketaki Sood, co-curator of Nayaab, who’s facilitating the exhibition in Chennai.

The merchandise at Nayaab, which might be on show until October 4, begin at ₹8,000.