Description
The Macha Handmade Tapestry
The Macha Handmade Tapestry is curated by JIWYA, the sea art project made by students at Every Life Works and My Life Learning Center. A limited-edition piece curated using original artworks from students at ELW. And, purely plant-based fabrics from JIWYA, and heritage textile arts from India.
At Every Life Works, we create sustainable micro-businesses for our students. Our students generate wealth through ownership and working with neurotypical adults.
JIWYA, converted the original painting by our students Geneva and Joshua. It was converted into an appliqued handmade tapestry. One that involves plant-based fabrics, colors, and authentic, handmade Indian textile arts.
Macha in Bengali means Fish. This particular piece is backed with a sturdy handloom fabric, made with unbleached coarse handspun cotton yarns. The large fish uses handloom fabric made in khadi and locally sourced cotton from four different states- Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, and Rajasthan. The turtle is made with Bagh and Kalamkari Hand-Block prints and is made into a 3-D structure using fiber filling from our zero-waste production. The Jellyfish encompasses natural indigo hand-block prints of Dabu from Rajasthan. Many upcycled materials from our zero-waste production are used to embellish the tapestry and its smaller elements.
JIWYA's team then added beautiful touches of hand embroidery around the shapes to translate the painting in the best way possible.
Natural aged indigo, myrobalan, madder, alum, rusted iron scrap dipped in jaggery and tamarind seeds paste, turmeric, Palaash flowers, and such natural materials were used to complete the natural colors on this piece.
- Art: Handmade Textiles Arts of Mashru, Bagh-Hand Block Print, Coarse Handloom, Machilipatnam Kalamkari, Dabu Hand-Block Prints, respectively from Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan.
- Time Spent To Curate: 40-50 days
- Material: Khadi Cotton handloom, natural plant colors, natural jute yarns
- Size: 41" x 22"
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