the alchemy of our fibres

I initially considered changing the name of my collection, "The alchemy of our fibers," to something in Nagamese or another tribal...

Location 1 - A friend's photography studio I hired for two hours Even though this is something really small, but even to move my...

I was planning to purchase local Malwa teak from Madhya Pradesh, my home state, because it is highly durable and has more oil content...

SO MANY BLUNDERS!! I was lucky with shipping in some ways and in some, it turned out to be frustrating. I did a very thorough research...

I decided to make this pouf on an existing pouffe I had in my house which no one used as this was more of an exploration. This saved...

The first attempt went wrong. Even though the teak dowel was very sturdy since I hadn't given any joinery to keep it intact for the faces...

There was a very long discussion with my family over upholstery since it happened at home. My brother was worried that since the textile...

I initially developed my weaving designs in my sketchbooks before refining them digitally using Procreate on my iPad to ensure accurate...

For polishing the furniture, I looked for more environmentally friendly options and discovered a plant-based, one-step oil with 0% VOC....

The legs were crafted using a lathe machine. They were carved out of a 10x10-inch block of white ash, which was formed by combining five...

I wanted to use the Naga heads subtly inspired by the smoking pipes used by the people of Nagaland. For this, I designed a carved dowel...

Adding MS plates under the top is to join the legts to the top seamlessly. Since I knew that I would have to keep on disassembling the...

Maintained the lip of the bench at 20mm and the ottoman at 49mm. In my drawing for the ottoman, some edges remained at 32mm so while we...

Bench grains before cutting Wood joined by glue and copress machine after sanding it. Then I printed a 1:1 scale sheet of the top shapes...

White ash wood was readily available in 8" width, which meant that if I had to achieve a width of 16" as the finished width for my bench,...

Kinds of wood available - Local wood - Mango wood, teak, pine wood Imported wood - White ash, oak, walnut, unnamed african wood. After...

In my recent conversation with Jesmina, I had to convey that due to budget and time constraints, I was considering not making the...