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Khadi - the fabric of freedom A film directed by Kanika Myer, it is a tribute to the freedom movement in India and how Khadi was a means of self-enpowerment that swept the country. Kanika Myer directs under the label Ka-an affiliate of BBP Music: Pt.

Khadi Spirit

Louisa Loakes November 9, 2015

After visiting the Fabric of India exhibition currently on at the V&A I realised even more just how wonderful Khadi cotton - its meaning and spirit,  this why I like working on it. Here is a beautiful film I found showing the process of its production. Khadi is not just a cloth, it is a whole movement started by Gandhi. The Khadi movement promoted an ideology, an idea that Indians could be self-reliant on cotton and be free from the high priced goods and clothes which the British were selling to them.

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Louisa was formally trained as a painter at Wimbledon school of Art, through her painting she pursues harmony of line, form and composition; all elements that influenced her current range of fabric designs. Taking inspiration from the traditional craft of block printing, one of the oldest methods of printing. Louisa uses simple geometric form and shape, embracing the nuances and subtle variation the process of block printing offers. Her patterns are finished with flecks of colour painted by hand.

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