Tuesday, April 7, 2015

My Yatra !

My travel stories with Santhal, Dongria Kondh and Sujuni artisans in Odisha, Bihar, Chattisgarh, and other areas. The experience and interaction with Adivasi and crafts people changed my outlook, it turned me into researcher from a designer. My travel yatra continues in the pursuit of stories and weaves.

https://pankajasethi.wordpress.com/

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Reinterpreting Odisha Textiles



The traditional textiles of Odisha are rendered with beautiful patterns in ikat and enhanced with extra warp threads in the warp and extra weft threads and usually heavily rendered.



The story behind my designs: My love with Odisha textiles pulled me back to my native state in 2006. My experiments with weaving focus on minimalism, emphasising each elements of design at a time.  With stress on supreme quality of natural materials I travelled villages to villages wandering in the search of stories to meet weavers who could weave sarees patiently and slowly with love and passion –making sure that each thread in the warp and weft intersects and interlaces beautifully. 

We don’t make many but make few works of art that is special and close to our heart.

My work with weavers, women spinners and tie dye makers builds a interactive dialogue and collaborative space with traditional artist- making every piece unique and special.

Buy and view our complete range of sarees here  ~ http://www.parisera.com/pankaja

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Recycled Threads of Life

Recycling Threads of Life - this story celebrates recreations, reuse and recycling of textiles inspired by the vibrancy and colouful patchwork of Korean Pojagi work and local quilting tradition of Odisha.

Combining left over pieces of ikat, gamcha, yardage, khadi and lungi, giving it a new meaning from useless to recycled silhouettes. The clothing line uses bits and pieces of handcrafted textiles and values the process of woven stories created for holistic and environmental friendly purposes. 

Collection available online from 5th - 19th February 2015.  https://www.jaypore.com/shop-collection/recyled-threads-of-life-by-pankaja-sethi-patchwork-reycled-bags-jackets-skirts-from-odisha-1304
Our story was covered by Swatisingdha Suar in TheTelegraph Bhubaneswar
http://epaper.telegraphindia.com/paper/8-152-05@02@2015-1009.html





Thursday, January 29, 2015

Textured Tales

Elegant silhouettes for an effortless everyday style statement !


This collection on Jaypore celebrates the beauty of handcrafted textured textiles by combining dyed khadi and ikat from Odisha. While khadi is rooted in Indian traditions, the fine single ikat tradition from Eastern Odisha is a special form of textile creations. Presenting one-of-kind reversible clothing for women.



 28th Jan to 11th Feb 2015
Shop here ~  https://www.jaypore.com/shop-collection/textured-tales-by-pankaja-sethi-reversible-ikat-and-khadi-tussar-cotton-jackets-shrugs-shirts-1269?utm_source=mailer&utm_medium=27/01/15&utm_campaign=mailer-27/01/15