Vastrabharana 2025 in Bengaluru showcases handcrafted textiles and jewellery

Subsequent week, the thirty third version of Vastrabharana — the annual exhibition of handcrafted textiles and jewelry — will begin in Bengaluru. Organised by The Crafts Council of Karnataka (CCK), the occasion will convey collectively weavers, designers, and artisans from throughout the nation. This 12 months, Vastrabharana is themed on Phantasm and Fantasy, and is slated to be a tribute to the ‘energy of creativeness and storytelling in textile traditions… and invitations collaborating artisans and designers to blur the boundaries between the true and imagined, taking part in with layers, colors and patterns’

Within the textile part, guests can store for ikkat weaves from Pochampally, Gujarat, and Odisha; materials from Kutch; handlooms from the Northeast; Kanchipuram and Benarasi silks; eco-prints; hand-painted Madhubani and Kalamkari saris, and extra. Sanghamitra Kalita, founding father of Guwahati-based Econic, as an example, can be bringing handloom saris and stoles. “These are comprised of eri silk (Ahimsa silk), and are dyed with vegetable dyes, and printed with actual flowers and leaves. Each bit is handwoven, hand dyed and hand printed,” she says, including that Econic is a ladies artisan-led and artisan-run sustainable trend model. “We acquire discarded flowers from temples and markets, in addition to vegetable and fruit peels from eating places and juice retailers, and we’ve got reworked over 400 kilograms of natural waste into pure dyes.”

One other model from the Northeast is The Nomi, and owner-director Susant Phukan says he can be bringing saris, dupattas, stoles, shirt items, and yardage in muga silk, eri silk, mulberry silk, tassar silk, and Moirangphee silk. The model, he says, is known as after his late sister who shared his love for handlooms. “The endeavour is aimed toward boosting the socio-economic ecosystem and livelihood of artisans within the Northeast. We aspire to attach the area’s wealthy heritage and creativity to various markets throughout the globe,” says Susant of the label he launched in 2021.

Additionally collaborating within the occasion is artisan-owned public restricted firm Rangsutra that works with “over 2,000 artisans” throughout Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Kashmir, Manipur, amongst different States. Shruti Mital, advertising and marketing and retail head, says Rangsutra will convey their assortment titled Raagini, that has handlooms that includes embroidery drawn from Rajasthan’s deserts. “The gathering is an assorted story of wealthy hand-woven saris in tussar and eri silk that characteristic suf embroidery and mirror work.”

Alongside attire, artisan-crafted jewelry equivalent to lac bangles by Madad Ali, thread jewelry by Kailash Patwa, silver jewelry from Aham, and sculptural silver items by Mrinalini Cariappa, can be on show.

From September 3 to 7 at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Kumara Krupa Highway, Bengaluru. 10 am to 7.30 pm. Free entry