The following project was undertaken at Studio Medium, as a part of 6-month long Graduation project.
Medium is an apparel and home textile design studio based in New Delhi, headed by Riddhi Jain Satija. The studio works with various tie die techniques and Sustainability being one of their priciples led to the RE- initiative that aims at REusing tied threads discared in the process of Bandhani at the artisans end.
PROJECT BRIEF
Bandhani is a Heritage Indian craft of Resist Tie- Dyeing. It is applied to create intricate patterns on textiles and to achieve that it uses miles of yarns to tie cloth. These are the yarns with which the cloth is tied to restrict the dye from penetrating into the cloth in the dye bath.
Once untied and opened, these tiny entangled yarns are discarded.
-Re preserves and repurposes the by-products of these textile processes to relook at what is considered as 'waste' and to create one-off textile pieces. Considering the versatility of waste material, the aim of the project is to push its limitations and diversify the product possibilities in Apparel and Home pieces.
The end of one process is beginning of another.
MATERIAL EXPERIMENTS
The material is explored in combination with various media like paper and textiles to create surfaces
Sealing the material in translucent layers to retain its visual properties
Turning Threads to Solid Material to retain its tactile and visual properties
TEXTILE EXPLORATIONS
FORM EXPLORATIONS FOR HOME PIECES
APPAREL COLLECTION
STOP MOTION ANIMATIONS
Various stop motion movements explored to bring the threads to life.
These animation clips are used as collection launch teasers.
IN THE WORLD
As seen during Vienna Fashion Week 2022 (left) and Medium's article for Elle Magazine 2023 (right).
Collaboration with Judith Wagner (Sculptor) for Photo stories.
