September 2025 · Checked cotton
Nalgonda
The oral-history visit: a street of six working looms that held forty. Two retired weavers warped a demonstration from memory.
Stories · Travel Map
The route so far, and next
Suka is fieldwork before it is a shop. This is the journey log: every cluster visit in order, what each one brought home — films, notes, library entries — and where the route goes next.
5 visits documented · 2 planned
The cluster map, by people →Documented
November 2025 · Extra-weft figure
Siddipet
Three days in the extra-weft sheds, counting milkmaids. The film of a single figure emerging took an afternoon to shoot and she took an afternoon to weave.
January 2026 · Resist-dyed geometry
Bhoodan Pochampally
The dye yard at dawn and the tying shed after it. The vat was awake; the notes and the tying film came home with us.
March 2026 · Temple borders
Narayanpet
An afternoon shift recorded for the sound as much as the picture: four looms falling in and out of phase.
May 2026 · Interlocked border
Jogulamba Gadwal
The kupadam interlock filmed close enough to count threads, in the courtyard where Narsamma's grandmother warped.
Ahead
Published before it happens, because saying so out loud is how a plan survives. Dates are seasons, not promises — the loom sheds set the calendar, not us.
Late 2026 · Striped ikat
Warangal
The durrie and tussar looms. The plan is a tools film for the library — reed, shuttle and treadle, each in a working close-up.
Early 2027 · Maroon ikat
Nizamabad
The cluster the catalogue knows least well. First contact travel: meet the weavers, record consent, and let the shelves follow.
A visit earns its place here once its material is published — a film on the shelf, a note on the record, entries in the library. Travel without the homework is tourism, and that is a different website.