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Padma Rao
Bhoodan Pochampally · Second generation · Resist-dyed geometry
- Ikat tying
- Dyeing
- Weaving
- Languages
- Telugu, Hindi
- Household
- Shares a courtyard dye pit with three neighbouring looms.
- On record
- 0 pieces in the catalogue
Padma is a tyer first and a weaver second, which in ikat is the harder half: the pattern is decided at her knots, weeks before a shuttle moves. She counts thread groups aloud in Telugu while she works and says the counting is the craft — the loom only proves whether she was right.
The pattern is finished before the weaving starts. If I tied it wrong, no loom can save it.
From her workshop
Record 002 · Pochampally, Telangana
Geometry Tied Before the Loom
Padma Rao · 18 days · 02 artisans · 54 loom hours