Double-sided cotton dupatta with strip patchwork

The base textile of Saagari is woven by Tai Khampti weavers from Arunachal Pradesh. We had brought about 500 kgs of cotton yarn to Arunachal Pradesh and took it as a drive to sensitise weavers towards using cotton over easily available synthetic yarns. This initiative brought livelihood to untrained weavers, single mothers, and older women to engage in weaving plain, checks and striped fabrics.

Saagari is joined as a steadfast stitch of many panels and is crafted as a continuous patchwork of the textile pieces bound together into vertical striped and box patches, giving the dupatta a natural gravity towards a drop-down drape. A constant has been kept alive where the workshop is handled by my dear mother, who has given tangibility to a vision of sustainable textile resourcefulness. She meticulously manages and segregates each smallest piece of fabric that appears in the process of stitching and those become our gold mine to cull out wonders from!

Saagari is a one-of-a-kind textile designed to highlight a unique coming together of various techniques and creativity of handcraft. This design will not be recreated.

Param did the beadwork

Gurmail, the tailor

Cotton is woven with Amlawati, Arunachal Pradesh

Mumma, Madhu, patchwork technical eyes and segregating hands

Midtoan.com, the photographer

Designed by Ritika