:: Weavers Studio - Infrastructure ::

The studio has a collection of over 500 antique kantha, bandhni, baluchori sarees and contemporary world textiles from Japan, Africa and Indonesia. The wide variety of scarves, traditional saris, dupattas and art textiles are both admired and are off the rack in no time. Blended and pure yarn is used by them in the process of weaving, the results of which can be seen in the numerous shirts and textiles. Block printing, screen printing, spraying, hand printing, roller printing are the different types of techniques applied in prints to bring out exclusive textile design. Batik, a wax-resistant technique of printing using natural dyes, is a popular item in the store.

While dyeing the fabrics, shibori, a Japanese technique of tie and dye using natural indigo dyein combination with other dyes, is used to bring out intricate designs, colours and stitching.

The hand woven cotton khadi shirts, is an image of comfort, style and affordability during the festive season. These are all eco-friendly and bio-degradable. Patch scrolls and pintuck shirts are also availablein. The hand embroidered apparel and cloth is a sight to see. Rich and subtle colours, delicate and stiff fabrics are used to create beautiful kalamkari, chikankari and kantha saris. The patchwork and tribal embroidery is a speciality of this studio.

The in-house library at Weavers Studio houses over 1,000 textile books, 20,000 sample swatches and 300 or more representative textiles from all over the world. The Weavers Studio Library brings together a collection of rare and interesting books from around the world. This unique collection combines the past and present, contemporary and traditional books on designs and fabrics representing many cultures. Workshops are held at regular intervals for exchanging views and evolving new ideas.

This also helps to nurture awareness for textile design. It also conducts extensive studies in natural dyes, especially Indigo and research of trade textiles, their history and reproduction for revival and contemporary usage.

The experience, textual knowledge and collectables that the studio has gained in the field of textiles over the years is presented in the library for the benefit of its employees, diploma project and design school students from fashion and design institutes like NIFT, NIFD, NID and Wigan & Leigh. They are encouraged to do their training, internship and diploma projects with this infrastructural support.

Computer Aided Design Lab at Weavers Studio has an inhouse printing, weaving and design development software, the epitome of every visual design that is created with rich lively colors. Designs can be modified adjusted and changed with vision easy colouring and offers designers the adequate tools for colour separation, reductions and repeats. Owing to the multi project capable Windows architecture, several different projects can be kept on screen to transfer colour instantaneously between them.