Create a beautiful mandala using colourful yarn wrapped around a simple frame.
Explore different colours, patterns, and shapes to make each design unique.
This relaxing craft encourages creativity, focus, and patience.
Take home your handmade yarn mandala as a colourful piece of decor!
Workshop theme & Highlights:
"Yarn Mandala is a creative art and craft activity that combines colourful yarn, geometric patterns, and mindful making. Participants create intricate mandala designs by wrapping, weaving, and arranging yarn into symmetrical patterns, exploring creativity, patience, and self-expression.
Key Themes
- Creativity & Self-Expression: Explore colours, textures, patterns, and individual artistic styles.
- Mindfulness & Relaxation: Encourage focus, patience, and a calming, meditative creative experience.
- Geometry & Symmetry: Discover radial patterns, repetition, balance, and geometric design.
- Sustainability & Material Exploration: Experiment with leftover yarn, recycled materials, and accessible craft supplies.
- Cultural Art & Contemporary Craft: Explore the mandala concept through a contemporary, hands-on textile art practice.
- Community & Collaboration: Bring participants together through shared creativity and collaborative artwork.
Workshop Highlights
- Hands on Yarn Weaving: Learn simple wrapping and weaving techniques using colourful yarn and wooden sticks.
- Personalised Mandala Creation: Design a unique mandala with individual colour combinations and patterns.
- Learning by Doing: Understand symmetry, colour harmony, texture, and pattern development.
- Inclusive for All Ages: Suitable for children, students, adults, and beginners.
- Take Home Artwork: Complete a handmade decorative piece for display or gifting.
- Mindful Creative Experience: Enjoy a rhythmic, engaging craft activity that encourages patience and concentration.
Detailed Workshop Itinerary :
"The Yarn Mandala Workshop introduces participants to the art of creating colourful, symmetrical patterns using yarn and simple weaving techniques. The session progresses from an introduction to materials and design principles to hands on creation and a final display of individual artworks.
1. Welcome and Introduction
Introduce participants to yarn mandala art, its geometric patterns, radial symmetry, and creative possibilities. Present sample artworks to inspire ideas.
2. Material Introduction and Colour Selection
Demonstrate the use of yarn, wooden sticks, scissors, and optional decorative elements. Participants select colour palettes and explore combinations, textures, and contrasts.
3. Demonstration of Techniques
The facilitator demonstrates how to assemble the framework, secure the yarn, wrap it around the sticks, change colours, and build repeating patterns while maintaining balance and symmetry.
4. Planning the Mandala Design
Participants plan their central structure, colour sequence, and pattern layout. The facilitator offers individual guidance based on age, skill level, and design preferences.
5. Hands-on Yarn Mandala Creation
Participants create their own mandalas by wrapping, weaving, and layering yarn in selected colours. They experiment with repetition, texture, and geometric arrangements while receiving guidance from the facilitator.
6. Finishing & Detailing
Participants secure loose yarn ends, refine their patterns, and add optional finishing touches to make their artwork ready for display.
7. Art Display & Sharing
Participants showcase their completed mandalas, share their creative process, and appreciate the diversity of colours, patterns, and interpretations created during the workshop.
8. Closing & Takeaways
Conclude with a brief reflection on creativity, patience, and mindful making. Participants take home their finished yarn mandalas as handmade decorative artworks."
Important Information:
1) Please carry a valid photo ID and your confirmed e-ticket for entry.
2) Kindly arrive 30 minutes before the scheduled start time of the heritage walk.
3) Monument entry tickets are not included in the heritage walk fee and must be purchased separately by participants either via ASI website or at the ticket counter.
4) The registration fee covers only the heritage walk (guided tour).
5) Outside food and beverages are not permitted within the monument premises.
6) Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable, except in the event of cancellation by the organizer.
Event venue
Purana Qila: Delhi, Mathura Road, Near Delhi Zoo, Delhi, NCR 110003, India, New Delhi
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