Knot Wasted

Vajor Experiences is all in to make mindful & conscious living a significant part of our daily lives. Recycling & upcycling waste to create beautiful decorative products is one of the most fun ways to live mindfully. One such workshop here is about a unique way of reusing your textile waste and upcycling it through tapestry weaving. Explore different waste materials in weaving a chance to create recycled art.

In ‘Knot Wasted’, we learn the basics of frame-loom weaving while repurposing scrap materials into a unique Tapestry – an ancient form of weaving, more like ‘painting with fibre’.

The flow of the Workshop:

• Understanding the fashion industry
• Looking at textile waste as a resource
• Understanding the basics of Tapestry weaving
• Dressing up the frame loom
• Exploring weaving with different waste materials
• Creating woven art samples

Age Group: 16 and above

Course Level Rating: Beginner

About the Artist: Ashita Singhal is a weaver, textile artist, and social entrepreneur. She believes in working with limited resources and local materials. Born and brought up in Delhi, one of India’s most polluted cities, she started to see waste as a resource and a material for her design explorations.