Vadodara-based textile designer Medha Bhatt’s works of art using fabric discards tell stories that resonate with her clients
The Hindu
Each piece is a collage, created with hundreds of pieces of scraps of cloth
Six trees, six cities. Representing each city, the trees narrate the story of a widely-travelled couple who lived in the cities. Created by textile designer Medha Bhatt, the mural-like art work was a gift to a couple celebrating their golden anniversary. Created with thousands of bits of textile discards, it is one of the signature pieces made by Vadodara-based Medha.
Calling it one of the most challenging pieces she ever did, she says: “My clients wanted the work to have an impressionistic look, a kind of Van Gogh effect on cloth. I covered the white base cloth completely with fabric discards.”
Since 2004, Medha has been creating picturesque works of art from fabric discards that she buys in sacks from tailoring shops in Vadodara.
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