Studio Medium

The JamBan Journals 2.0 by Studio Medium

The JAMBAN JOURNALS 2.0 takes forward Medium’s experimentation with Jamdani and Bandhani a few sprints forward, by creating textiles that root themselves firmly on both of these distinct crafts, yet speak off a language of seamless transitions and overlapping identities.

Taking inspiration from artists Itchiku Kubota and Jeremy Gardiner’s works – This collection rediscovers what it is to have a 6-yard drape as a canvas, and reimagines the garment as a second skin. Supplementary metallic yarns draw straight lines across the shoulder, while minuscule resisted bandhani dots cluster together with astounding compactness before leaping to dance in the air with the fluttering pallav.

These landscape-like sculptural textiles embody material memory by developing visual and structural layers, as the fabric emerges from one process and gets prepared for the successive one. The process of making transcends geographical boundaries and in turn, the resulting textiles push at the edge of the evolution of two regional craft practices by bringing both together within the rectangular parameters of a single textile piece.