Name: Threads of Survival: Weaving and Pattern Narratives
Start: 2025-12-13T05:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-12-13T07:30:00+00:00
Location: Humayun's Tomb Museum

Threads of Survival: Weaving and Pattern Narratives

Art HoursAcross many traditional communities, weaving is far more than a craft — it is an archive of survival, resilience, and ecological intelligence. Every pattern carries a story: water lines that map seasonal shifts, zig-zags that echo wind and terrain, motifs that honour crops, rituals, ancestors, and the intimate rhythms of daily life. Through woven forms, communities document how they live in balance with land, environment, and each other.In this workshop, participants are invited to explore how threads can hold memory, meaning, and ecological wisdom. The session unfolds through hands-on weaving exercises, simple pattern-making techniques, and guided moments of reflection that open up the idea of textiles as narrative forms. Participants experiment with lines, knots, and repeated motifs to understand how woven structures can record identity, relationships with nature, and shared histories. As the group engages with colour, texture, and rhythm, the act of weaving becomes a way of thinking, a slow, mindful process that mirrors how communities have preserved knowledge, mapped their environments, and imagined futures through cloth. By the end, the collective experience reveals weaving not only as a technique, but also as a language of connection, continuity, and care.Audience Takeaways- Understand weaving as a form of storytelling, mapping, and knowledge-keeping- Explore simple weaving and pattern-making techniques- Learn how ecological wisdom and cultural memory are embedded in textile traditions- Experience reflective, hands-on making guided by museum educators- Gain insight into how craft traditions express identity and community resilienceThis workshop accompanies Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, the first major National Museum of Australia exhibition to tour India, presented in partnership with the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, at the Humayun’s Tomb World Heritage Site Museum.