The Sonthanga collection takes centre stage with 67 self-designs on Kora, the raw, unbleached off-white fabric which turned weavers into designers for the first time. The 67 designs created by 18 weavers of Thangalapalli in the Rajanna Sircilla district of Telangana are made of organic kora cotton, variety locally sourced from regenerative agricultural practices. “Earlier we would enlist all weavers …
It’s a world that’s long disappeared: the tall cotton trees in Gujarat that Marco Polo admired; clothes, finer and whiter than flax spotted by Alexander’s admiral in 327 BC; muslin that could be drawn through a ring; entire villages engaged in the making of cotton. Uzramma, whose Malkha initiative was born from a dream of replacing large spinning mills with …
