My Land of Cotton

Category: Interior

Due to industrialisation during British colonisation, my ancestors stopped the practice of hand weaving to move into working for power loom mills. This slowly drifted into other professions as the mills got shut over time. Investigated the shift to power loom, considering the importance of history, environmental and sustainable practices, reviving the relevance of handloom practices for these local crafts and places' social, cultural and heritage. Can Cotton and clay evolve as materials together? In continuation of my practice with traditional materials, In this project, 'My Land of Cotton' I experimented with indigenous knowledge about the two most primitive materials clay and cotton, its agricultural practices and their interrelation and evolution over time in a cultural context. The story they can convey together through weaves, textile and material applications in interior spaces. https://2023.rca.ac.uk/students/vidushi-chenna/ https://youtu.be/ugMWEBavC6c?si=R1fjadLdDXIHI78L