Indian Hotels Company (IHCL), South Asia’s largest hospitality company’s luxury lifestyle store Khazana & Antaran-Transforming Crafts; Tata Trusts’ Craft-Based Livelihood Programme comes together to showcase a curated collection of handwoven textiles on 1st May, 2022 at Taj West End, Bengaluru. This unique collaboration between Khazana and Antaran furthers the intent to impact the livelihood of thousands of weavers across Odisha, Assam, Nagaland and Andhra Pradesh.
An initiative by Tata Trusts to bring seminal changes in craft development, beginning with the Handloom sector, designed to transform traditional crafts through a multidimensional approach for technical, design, enterprise and market development interventions to strengthen craft based livelihoods. Antaran creates awareness about the rich heritage of Indian handloom and handicrafts, bring due recognition and returns to traditional artisans for their unique skills through a five-year program through Incubation & Design Centres for handloom development in select lesser known clusters of Assam, Nagaland, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. These Centres work as education and business development hubs for artisans, enabling them to be designer-weavers and build a community of micro-entrepreneurs across the handloom value chain in each region.
A curated exhibit of Indian handlooms and handpicked collection of masterpieces created using traditional weaves of the regions is going to be on display at the Art Corridor at Taj West End.
The exhibit will display an exclusive curated collection of Single Weft Ikats from Maniabandha – Odisha, Fine Tussar silks from Gopalpur Odisha, Zari Jamdani technique of Venkatgiri Andhra Pradesh, Cotton, Muga Silk & Eri Silk of Kamrup & Nalbari – Assam and Loin Loom weaves of Dimapur and Phek – Nagaland. Artisan Entrepreneurs from 6 clusters will be present to share their journey and talk about their craftsmanship.
Hands-on experience & demonstration on Backstrap loom of Nagaland, Tussar Hand reeling, Eri Silk hand spinning & Bandha tying technique will be presented to the customers to understand the nuances of the craft.
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