Like Victoria Terminus
July 1, 2011
L to R Syamala, Abrar and Vimal hard at work in MESH Design Studio
A pretty pink and green tablecloth
A zanny single bedspread and all to learn about placements. 
Vimal has really taken to the work asking to come in on Saturday and learn something new. He has the most horrible leg injury from a truck accident and is awaiting his thrid operation so he is trying to learn as much as possibe before he has to go back into hospital. Their GMR volunteer is busy making a poster of the methods of screen printing and either of the interns at any time joins him in his stenciling.
Then Sonam Palkit from PAGIR, Leh is still busy finishing of the new products developed with Ashok using tailor’s waste. Today her focus is hair bands…
Sonam fully focussed
In action on a new idea
The techniques are new and layering of silk promises some very interesting results.
Silk layers and metalic thread
Screen Printing Training Has Started
June 15, 2011
Vimal, Reena and the GMR volunteer Deepak from the GMR project arrived in MESH Design Studio today for their first screen printing lesson and they have already printed something! They are learning about stencil and enamel printing before settling into the really serious business of photographic screen printing.
Syamala showing Reena and Vimal and Deepak how to make a stencil
Both Vimal and Reena have orthopedic disabilities and they are from low income backgrounds. We hope very much that they will learn the skill, enjoy the work and set up their own printing unit in the resettlement community where they now live having been moved from a temporary slum when the new airport was built. Hopefully they can earn their living from this activity by taking local orders and selling through MESH.
Trying it out
Watch the progress.
Sonam at work in MESH Design Studio
Sonam from Leh is also working on some new products with Ashok using tailor’s waste. Sonam is hearing impaired, following an injury from falling off the roof of her home when she was about six years old. She works with two other women in the Secmol office of PAGIR in Leh in the Himalayas…and this is their usual view from the workshop window!
View from SECMOL Office in Leh where Sonum usually works
This week we have a paid workshop in MESH Design studio. Hrishi, our design consultant, is conducting a workshop on packaging for four groups all of whom are members of Arunim, the trading organisation of National Trust. They are all cutting and folding fantastic shapes in paper and card samples of packaging materials for food, paper and candle product ranges. Hrishi’s focus is boxes that do not require glue so that they can be flat stored and assembled by the disabled people working in the production units and rehabilitation workshops.
The participants are from Muskaan, Athak Prayas and Monovikas all Delhi based organisations and one gentleman from M.P.Welfare Association for the blind based in Indore.
MESH Design studio is funded by IM Soir for a limited period, these paid workshops are MESH’s attempt to introduce an element of sustainability to the studio. To find out more about MESH design Studio services please contact Hrishi or Syamala on +91 11 26172579 or e-mail jackybonney@mesh.org.in
Plans for the Quarter
January 6, 2010
Wish everyone a very Happy New year!!!!
We are new to blogging and are working our way up to provide regular updates of our work in MESH Design Studio. Remember MESH is a non profit organisation working with leprosy affected and disabled people to improve their livelihood. Check our website for more http://www.mesh.org.in
We are four regulars in the studio; Hrishi and Syamala design, Narayan weaves and does lots of other technical stuff and Basu helps with everything.
We’ve just been planning the things we should try and do in this first quarter of 2010 in the designing department. Here is some of what is planned:
Hrishi is hoping to design a new range of kitchen linen with our Faridabad weavers and he will spend some time in Little Flower on new silk scarves and mini jacquard weaving. I am working on some silk covered photo albums and other Kosa silk embroidery designs… oh and some block printed cloth covered note books too. That will take in two supplier groups in Champa and Vizianagaram with the block prints from Mangalore maybe. And some hand woven bags from Bethany for 2011. Also some screen printed aprons from Mangalore and wooden/bamboo toys from Ashish in Bankura
Watch this space for news of how it all progresses!
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