RITUAL PROCESS
Unsung Weavers is a call for the renewal of ceremonial textile production. Our collected fabrics date from a time when every household created its own clothing and each village contained multiple craftspeople. Traditional rural production was dependent on life’s rhythmic cycles, requiring both rainwater and dry periods, in tune with the seasons and nature’s ancient wisdom. Once woven, blankets were felted in riverbeds after the rains came. Through ritualistic processes wool’s innate properties became animated by earthly divinities, alongside water and light, before being reanimated by the maker’s hands. Unsung Weavers re-frames these traditions of material metamorphosis for the present day, with our work serving as a living tribute to the timeless collaboration between nature’s human and non-human agents.