Mauna

Client Vraj:Bhoomi

Role Textile Designer

Year 2021

Craft Ajrakh Block Printing

Location Kutch, Gujarat

Mood Board

The inspiration is Underwater, which denoted the life that exists along with us in this world. It shows the calmness of the underwater, the beauty that lies in it. With ever growing chao we need something that offeres us serenity and life. Silence of the ocean setting us free.

Colour Board

Natural dyes

Madder - Red Dye

There is a practice in India of using Indian madder roots, Rubia cordifolia, known as majeeta, to make a strong red dye.

Natural Indigo - Blue Dye

Indigo dye may be either natural indigo from Indigofera tinctoria or a synthetic replacement referred to as 'German' indigo.

Kut Paste - Black Dye

Kut paste, a fine soft paste from fermented jaggery/molasses with iron, gains popularity for black ink.

Hand drawn sketches

Explorations

Blocks

  • Vanya

    This block depicts the wilderness that is enfolded in the sound of the world. It is the untamed part of the ocean growing. A pure and free spirit.

  • Maya

    The illusion and the chaos in everyday life. Moving in circles, chasing round and round, Maya.

  • Makarand

    Makarand is the beauty rooted so deep like the nectar of a flower. Makarand the recipe of life. The sweetness of the blooming flowers.

  • Dalasa

    A single leaf on the ground. Small part of a world, a story and a song. A leaf floats freely on it's own, Dalasa.

  • Nishkul

    Nishkal a silent whisper of the shell upon the sand, deep down the bottom of the ocean hidden and lost.

  • Jhasa

    Jhasha, living a whole other world, with a new life and a new begining.

  • Mukta

    Yukta, Emotion flow in rhythmic waves like the hazed thoughts of a day dreaming child. Free and unrestricted in it's way.

  • Nalin

    Nalin, movement of the water lillies withthe u grazing its surface, floating, waiting to blossom

  • Madyati

    Little drops of bubbles shining in the light, glistening in the air. vanish and reborn again, Madyati.

  • Paushpa

    A growth of wild thoughts, away from the ordinary, arisng from beneath, Paushpa

  • Nirjhari

    Nirjhari is the grain of sand left untouched

  • Vipathi

    Vipathi, scattered all around the ground, heavy hearted, moving to the rock bottom and watching, listening all throughout.

Production gallery

Product sampling

Mauna Collection

Kaftans and scarves

Created a women’s wear capsule collection for Vraj:bhoomi, 2021. The collection breaks the traditional norms, styles of Vraj:bhoomi’s aesthetics with a unique motifs and prints.

Mauna Collection

Kurthas