V Sathiyamoorthy’s father gave in to his eagerness to experiment and created a range of Kanchi Cotton sarees with the traditional temple border. Now, Sathiyamoorthy handles the designing  with new colour combinations but ensures the traditional motifs remain during his process of experimentation. 

When V Sathiyamoorthy had to collaborate with another artist for the Me2We project, he collaborated with Porgai by The Tribal Health Initiative. Porgai works with Lambadi women and not only helps them to earn a living but also plays an instrumental role in reviving the dying traditional craft of Lambadi embroidery. 

An organic collaboration, the Lambadi embroidery on the Kanchi Cotton sarees resulted in classy and elegant sarees that appealed to all ages.

Chitrika from Andhra Pradesh, in an endeavour to participate in the collaborative craft theme, has ventured into garmenting for the first time. They have tied up with Sandor Kushala Kala Kendra (SKKK) from Karnataka for Banjara embroidery on their handloom (Cotton and Khadi) garments.

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Sandor Kushala Kala Kendra are creating a wide range of bright coloured beautiful dupattas and accessories (bags and pouches), with the handwoven cotton fabric provided by Chitrika. For Bags and pouches SKKK is using the cut pieces and waste fabric from Chitrika.

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SKKK had been receiving feedback about the design being stagnant. So this collaboration has livened up the artisans to use their creative bend of mind. SKKK is also looking forward to future collaborations with different groups so that they can innovate a various new ranges of product. For instance - Banjara work on leather bags.

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Speaking about the AHH membership, Roohi said that they are very happy with the platform provided by A Hundred Hands. “Although we have a store in Bangalore, with AHH membership we got a better outlet. It’s the clientele and the crowd that makes the difference. We on our own could not have done this.”

Switha from Chitrika says, ”We have been planning to venture on garmenting for a long time now, and this initiative provided us the opportunity to experiment on garmenting. This is of course a value addition to our organisation as we are introducing new range of products.”

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“We had a successful run the first time we participated in The Handmade Collective Bazaar last year. It is a very good platform for the artisans and hence I was keen on exploring this opportunity,” she adds.

The opportunity did turn out to be a huge success and you now have a chance to own one of these beautiful pieces of this collaboration by visiting our Mumbai Bazaar in January 2017.  

When Anita Joshua from Anita Karat Joshua Studios and Arati Bedekar, from Encaustic Art by Arati got together for the ME2WE project, they knew that they would be creating unique and stunning pieces of art. 

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The Jewellery Perch lends a different dimension to a lady’s dresser. Uniquely shaped with slots to perch dangling earrings strategically, it also doubles up to hold sticks of eye & lip pencils. While the Ceramic Disc can be displayed in a zany frame on the wall!

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The Potter’s expertise:  

The process involves throwing a lump of clay and turning it into the resultant shape at the potters' wheel and further glazing it by raising it to a temperature of 1250°C in a kiln. 

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Encaustic Art Paint : The Encaustic art work done complements the ceramic perch by adding an artistic array of colours. The challenge of working on a curved surface which retains heat was something which came up in the collaboration. Working with the encaustic iron, hot air gun and other tools, the pieces of artwork were achieved.