Pampa | In the ruins of Hampi, a cloth template emerges

Bamboo poles stop from grazing the walls of the 17th -century structure, which are kept for 10 days. Pampa: Karnataka Clothing – In collaboration with the Tourism Department of Karnataka and the Archaeological Survey of India, Ashraj was presented by Baldota Foundation. A careful matrix of similar poles is held strongly together with jute ropes, cross-cross-cross-cross-cross-cross-exhibition center cross-cross-cross-cross-cross-cross-cross-cross-cross-cross.

In a way, exhibition design is a suitable metaphor for intent Pampa: One of the construction connections between the old and the new, is showing the other for its best advantage to revive the interest in the textiles of each state. Lavina Baldota says, “What we want is a synergy.” Sutr Santati: Again, Now, NextCelebration of Indian textiles in 2022. Pampa His sixth presentation is an ode for her matrimonial home in Karnataka.

The state is not associated with a strong or stored cloth heritage, especially when it comes to fine clothes – compared to, to Bengal or Gujarat or Close, for Tamil Nadu – but Pampa (An ancient name for powerful Tungabhadra), she expects, it will help claim her right place in the sun. “As a survey exhibition, the first recurrence of Pampa The structure for further work sets up the Baldota Foundation intends to lift in the region, “She says.” Research will be darker, followed by documentation, resurrection and new commissions for exhibitions in Karnataka and beyond. ,

The hero Kalamkari panel (resistance was resisted using cotton; handwowel, hand-drain, natural dyes) was commissioned to Sriyasmita Mishra and Vipin Das of Aksha Studio in Chennai. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Baldota Foundation

Prepares

It is a malignant ambition, but is somewhat better than Baldota to feel it. With businesses in mining, power, steel and similar main industrial areas, as a patron of 54-year-old Ashraj Baldota Foundation, an associated of the diverse Baldota group, he is deployed to pull untrue work on the crafts and textiles, uniquely-and provides a powerful platform on his main interest areas, fashion and teachings. Like bamboo poles in the historical structure, Baldota enables weavers, designers, physicians to contact their desired audiences, including market -facing counterparts, so that a complete ecosystem can be constructed.

Establishment of navalgand Diarrhea
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Baldota Foundation

In a way, it is a conscious effort to update the fine balanced honeycomb of farmers, spinners, weavers, diaries, traders, transporters that were present in the pre-coronation of handwowels Indian textiles. Today’s set-up still requires all those, but it also requires champions who can take intellectual ownership, in the way of speaking, especially to create documentation for textile groups, spread information, forge connections, designs for new generations and help in building respectable markets.

It is clear from the fact that it is not an isolated effort Pampa The 20th textile exhibition Mayank Mansingh Kaul has cured in the last 10 years; This is also his fourth for the Baldota Foundation. According to any standards, it is an impressive number, given the months of research of each of them, must be necessary. But it is impressive as an indicator for increased appetite for textile knowledge between cognosenti and curious.

Exhibition installation view | Photo Credit: Courtesy of Baldota Foundation

Saris and their stories

The characteristic of 108 textiles in nine sections, exhibition (1–10 March) hits all correct notes, including an early Kalamkari entertainment of Shiva-Parvati Wedding Mural in Central. Ranga Mantapa The roof of the 7th century Virupaksha Temple, and a performance of the tricolor in Khadi, was prepared in a nearby Hubli. Karnataka Khadi Gramodoga Samukta Sangh is one of the only five units authorized to create a national flag in its original weaving. “When we set on our research trips a few years ago, Lavina and I thought we would probably find 10 examples of handmade clothes,” Kaul says. “Instead, we traveled forward, the more we acquired.”

Curatorial Team (LR) Pragati Mathur, Lavina Baldota, Mayank Mansingh Kaul, and Nupur Saxena. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Baldota Foundation

Often criticizing justification about the elite material of textile exhibitions, Pampa It creates a point to show daily use clothing and home-linen: summer friendly Lungislamb Blanket (Blanket), bright Navalgood DiarrheaThere are also great examples of vibrant lambni embroidery and geometric Kasuti Kama, both have achieved commercial success in many forms.

Long enclosure, characteristic Day and night sky Tents show with complex stitches of the Lambani tribe ScarfBangles, and Lehenga-choli Banjra women. It also includes a blank khadi. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Baldota Foundation

Each cloth on the display bear its own story, but perhaps no one is more emotional, woven in the taunt and gesture of the saris. Historically, when the artisans took their loom, they were inspired in the nature around them. Although a lot has changed for centuries for Indian textiles, for example, Odisha’s texture coatpad is still alive to weaved hand-praises and turtles in handloom. Similarly, formal Patida Ancis Gajendragarh – Originally built as a gift for the local deity Yalemma – still uses a joyful palette of mustard, maroon, greens and pink and is inauspicious black.

Ilkals, with their specific Tope-Tenny (Loops-Jur) stolePay tribute to S, Jawar (Sorbet) that grows around the city of farming; The design is inspired by the crop stalk, and the homegron saree was also a favorite drape of farmers. Many similar stories exit in the next few days: Vivid Red Palla One is a tribute to menstrual blood, the other’s woven boundary is a poultry-forming community with chicken legs as an easy sale, and many more.

Temple carvings of Vijayanagar dynasty and Dr. Inspired by the picture of the Pierre-Selfen Philiozat, these textile panel handwowels are a silk-cotton fabric printed blocks on the fabric. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Baldota Foundation

Older

The most striking part of the exhibition, at least for this writer, is a juiceposed collection of many physicians. Some, such as Bangalore’s textile brand, Pavithra Muddya of Vimor, despite their work in the region, are called designers, but they have taken the traditional weaving of the state and made them their own, while maintaining their traditional structures and motifs.

silk Ghagha And Scarf With Kasuti embroidery designed by Gaurang Shah. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Baldota Foundation

Mine Or EatFor example, there is a narrow-width cloth of geometric designs that are usually used for sewing blouses in neighboring southern Maharashtra. However, in the hands of the National Institute of Design Graduate Geeta Patil, it finds a great expression in Saris.

The square inch-by-circle inch of a 150-year-old Molkalmuru is equally amazing, a cloth named after a city in Chitradurg district of Karnataka. In a state where Amir fell back to Banaras or Kanchipuram for his occasion, Molclmuru has long been known for brocade in silk and metal yarn. Under the direction of Baldota, exhibition curator Pragati Mathur and Nupur Saxena sour the Bangalore -based Textile Efficuonado Uma Rao to sour and convince him to temporarily participate with it. He scattered Malakamuru until he does zero on Master Weaver DS Manjunath.

Establishment of Molkalamoru Saris | Photo Credit: Courtesy of Baldota Foundation

“Initially, I was very confident of being able to repeat the saree,” says Manjunath in the exhibition, as he introduces his work. “Then I overturned it, saw the underside and incredible beauty of the work, and said it is impossible.” Incentive and over time, however, Manjunath was successful in his efforts-and he also improved it, by ensuring double-parot motifs at the intersection of the body and Palla As the original, instead of 12-half, it was equally spread to dozens.

Perhaps one of the most rewarding takeaairs of a well -cured exhibition is to see its performance in continuity. While there will be undoubtedly a domino effect, Pampa Perhaps the best service will be done if it travels back where all this begins, for Ilkal and Navalgood and Molkamuru and all other groups, reports of interest and investment to achieve a strictly working loop.

The author is an editor and researcher based in Bangalore.