It is late evening at Gulmeher’s East Ghazipur Center. Nineteen year old Aashiana is sitting at her workbench, her steady and skilled hands busy creating the decimal petal outline of a new painting. She joined Gulmeher in 2013, and has been a part of its handicraft unit ever since. To create most of her art...
Hues of Holi: A Phulwa Celebration
Spring is a season of rejuvenation. After the long cold dark of winter, new vegetation sprouts and enlivens the earth. Mirroring this growth in nature, new hopes and dreams are born in us for the year ahead. To mark this awakening of nature from its winter’s slumber, each spring, in the Indian subcontinent, the festival...
Gulmeher Designer Talks About Their ‘Phulwa’ Range of Natural Holi Colours
Vidwata Singh, Chief Designer at Gulmeher, a women’s collective is helping the Gulmeher women perfect the ‘all natural’ colour making process for the upcoming Holi festival. A visit to Gulmeher, a women’s cooperative of waste-pickers turned artisans,turned out to be an informative and delightful experience. As I entered, I came across a unit bursting with...
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