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- Kabir the Weaver Poet
The fabric of stories
Nina Sabnani made an audio visual presentation on the making of Mukand and Riaz – the animated film and the book – at a conference called Mantles of Myth: The Narrative in Indian Textiles, organised by Siyahi in Jaipur from 13th to 15th December.
Nina is an animator, artist and author and has published several books with Tulika. The pictures in Mukand and Riaz use the art of women’s appliqué work, common to Sindh in Pakistan and Gujarat in India, to tell the story of two friends against the background of the partition of India, based on memories of her father.
Working with craftswomen to visually tell a story, Nina not only contemporised a traditional form inventively, she made the process participatory in the truest sense. The story became their very own with many litle facets of their lives woven in. Nina's presentation brought in a vibrant and fresh perspective to the discussions by textile experts, art historians, designers and writers on the challenges of preserving and nurturing textile traditions.
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