Cotton dupatta with strip patchwork

“Style is as unique and nontransferable and perfectly personal as a fingerprint. It is wise to take the time to develop one's own way of being, increasing those things one does well and eliminating the elements in one's character which can hinder and diminish the good personality. Seek the fashion which truly fits and befits you. You will always be in fashion if you are true to yourself, and only if you are true to yourself.”

― Maya Angelou

Some women of colour add good air to my lungs when they assume their voice as their own. That moment when she reclaims herself in the milieu of authority, she sets a chain reaction towards the ability to make choices. In those choices, a new course of life is revealed. That new life is not commonplace. It is strange, made of strange colours, all colours. And because it is deeply felt, it is like a trusted companion who you can share your deepest with.

Nara is joined as a steadfast stitch of many panels and crafted as a continuous patchwork of the smallest textile pieces bound together into vertical striped patches, giving the dupatta a natural gravity towards a drop-down drape. 

Nara 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