The project is about celebrating the handmade, not giving away the pleasure of creating a cloth to a machine, knowing where the cotton of a thread comes from, where the thread for khadi comes from, where the cloth for my kurta comes from, etc. The project is about the women of the Ahir tribes in Kutch, who spend their day embroidering vivid patterns that remind one of the works of Paul Klee. Women with no formal training who have created a world around their remote thatched households. The project is about the young weavers at the Handloom School, Maheshwar, who didn’t opt out of their family occupation of weaving but instead will continue the tradition while remodelling with the current fashion trends.

The project is about Shrinu, my guide, and a new recruit at the weaver service centre on Charni Road. With an experience of more than 15 years in jacquard loom, he humbly teaches me the intricacies of working on table loom while himself earning for his children to study well and get ‘good-paying’ jobs. The project is also an attempt to understand Gandhi and his urge for everyone to spin! The man who patronised the richness of Indian textiles and himself wore just a lion cloth At last, it's about celebrating the handmade, not giving the pleasure of creating a cloth to a machine. To know where the cotton of a thread comes from, the thread for khadi comes from, the cloth for my kurta comes from...