Hozho is a Navajo term for walking in beauty. With beauty to the left beauty to the right beauty above beauty below and beauty all around you.
Mising or Mishing community artisans wove the drape and pallu aspect of weaves.
The borders are made with a consistent flow of Ikat.
The pleats are made with Malkha.
The base is made with plain grey cotton woven by Tai Khampti artisans.
When so many artisans coming together with their hearts, hands, eyes, heads, feet to make poetry with warp and weft, it is Hozho, an act of creating beauty all around!
About Tai Khampti weaving
My association with Tai Khampti tribe began in 2012 when I expressed my wish to work with weaves of their community to Amla. She said she would involve her family- her own mother, mother-in-law and sisters-in-law to experiment making some weaves together. She mentioned that since they had not woven saris before, this would involve some trial and errors. Her family started to weave the more intricate patterns as the one seen in the Sari after about two years of trials and some compromised attempts. What started out among the family members in the year 2012, soon extended itself to about 30 homes of Namsai district.
In 2013, we brought about 500 kgs of cotton yarn to Arunachal Pradesh and took it as a drive to sensitise weavers towards using cotton over synthetic yarns for their indigenous weaves. Amla has championed the work we carried out with Tai Khampti weavers for more years than I could ever imagine. She began engaging untrained weavers, single mothers, and older women to engage in weaving plain, checks and striped fabrics. Rather than buying plain handloom fabrics from mainland, we began creating livelihood opportunities by weaving less intricate weaves as a medium of training new weavers and convenient income for trained ones.