Bags and blinds and weaving and costing and warping and teaching and no camera at hand!!

Fantastic sights and sounds in MESH Design Studio yesterday.  Narayan was click clacking away on the broad loom; Syamala and Ashok had meters of thread across the whole huge room as they made up a lovely orange coloured warp; two weavers from The Physically Handicapped Rehabilitation and Training Centre, Maharashtra were sitting on the floor working on new product ideas on their small looms; Govinda, our curtain and window-blind-maker-in-training was measuring cloth and rollers his first set of made to measure blinds for a customer; Hrishi was teaching Sonu how to cost her handmade greeting cards and I was just enjoying it all and cursing that there wasn’t a camera available just at that minute.

 Then we moved on to look at the bags that Ashok developed in Bethany Leprosy Colony.  Some great new designs again and pretty use of colour.  I love this part, when the waiting is over and we have wonderful new things to touch and model and peer inside. Here is a sneak preview; think chesnuts and fern and the sound of early autumn rain on shiny leaves  

Lovely new colours and .....

and more and ........

… much more to follow.