Faculty of Design

Material Art & Design

Kaushika Nayyar

Bhartiya Sanskriti

BHARTIYA SANSKRITI (Indian Culture)-Bringing a touch of India wherever, whenever.A collection of 12 contemporary designs inspired by personal experiences, heritage and connecting to the mother land. All for Indians to show off their traditional wear through these bold and colourful prints. Available in many colours and designs.

“Bhartiya Sanskriti is a collection of digital fabric prints inspired by personal experiences of being a third-culture kid living outside India and seeking to understand my changing relationship with my heritage. The collection includes a series of 12 bold and colourful prints with bindis (circular forms) and lines from the Indian map being my main motifs. These contemporary prints are to be used for traditional apparel like kurta and saris. Traditional colours like red, saffron, yellow, blue, white and pink are primary to my collection, as well as colours that are seen on modern ethnic wear in India (lavender, teal, mauve, brown and black). My collection of designs uses motifs from my artworks that I created digitally. Through the collection and the process of making, I am able to channel the anxieties of missing out on my own ethnic culture while I lived in five different countries.”