Well...
This is a first, but I'm just going to stick to instincts!! I have decided to hold a few workshops with the weavers in Fulia. What I intend to achieve out of these workshops is a pocket of new ideas in terms of designs for the products the weavers make. But these products will be generated through a combined effort - "combined forces", so to speak. I have come across a number of different processes used for design over the past month. But my question is, which one suits the craftsman the most? Or, which one suits the craft the most? There are different paths, all leading to the same collective end - Options that are laid out in front of the designer and/or the craftsman like a red carpet. It comes down to the choice, then. Which one do YOU choose?
- Nafisa Crishna
- I am a textile designer based out of Bangalore, India. Lots of varied things catch my fancy: a photograph, a cat, patterns in the dust. This is an attempt to put my work - and my fancies - out "there"!
Bailou: the room that was...
saris designed by Bailou, made by the weavers of Phulia.
The Bailou stock...
"dhoti saris" - finely woven saris: a highly dense reed & a high count of singles cot
fresh batch of saris.
1 comment:
Well...
I think you have structured your workshops really well. Don't try and achieve too much, two hour slots are good as you can keep the momentum going without getting too dull. The disadvantage is that its end of day for your audience, and hence attention might be wavering...your idea of keeping it quite practical is good. You will have to be observer as well as facilitator in order to get as much as you can out of each workshop - participation, awareness raising as well as material for you.
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