Threads: Sustaining India's Textile Traditions – PREVIEW

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Katherine Sender and Shuchi Kothari
color, 58 min, 2022
in English, Gujarati, Kutchhi, Hindi
with English subtitles

Threads explores the relationship between traditional weavers and fashion designers in India.

After decades of decline in a demand for legacy fabrics, collaborative relationships between designers and artisans (communicated and negotiated between social economic classes from different social positions) have led to fashion designers now recognizing the autonomy of artisan designers and the need to work with them. A highly regarded Indian designer reflects by saying, “artists [weavers] will not stop for my work, the craft is their lifestyle, if I change their lifestyle, it reflects in their work. Now I work according to them instead of according to me.”

In contemporary India, fashion houses strive for engagement with their weavers which is mutually beneficial for more than financial reasons, “we are going to create together, it’s what India wants.”

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