STORY OF NAMBU
Crafting Wearable Art
a visual presentaion behind the story of “nambu”
right from its raw stage till its final identity.
a unique recipe where old tradition is the main
ingriedient,with true flavours from nature and
lastly a pinch of my wild yet subtle design
sesnibilites to bring to you “nambu” all the way
from leh-ladakh india
first step involves cleaning of wool manually
to get rid of all the debris and then it needs
to be washed .
dried wool is then comed to create bails using
“balchad” (brush comb in local language)
STEP 1
the ready bails are then hand spun to create
yarn.
spun yarns are then made into balls called
“tugu”in local language
after the yarn is
prepared, the yarn balls or
tugu has to be opend up to
make bails in order to dye
READY YARN BAILS
“TSOS”
the art of dyeing
flavours form nature is the
second special ingriedient in the story of NAMBU
old age tradition of dyeing
has been followed
three main colours,
mustard, indigo and walnut
are used to add
flavours to
“nambu”
II PART OF THE STORY
LACHU
lachu is a plant
which is found on
the mountain
plains and this
is the plant
which gives the
holy mustard
colour
INDIGO
The most
beautiful and
vibrant shade
from indigo
blocks but not
native to ladakh.
WALNUT
dried walnut
shells is used
to get shades of
brown
Dye is prepared by
crusing it down to power and
put in a cottan sack, after
which it it thrown
in medium-hot water.
The ready bail is then
thrown in the dye solution and we have to let it sit in for couple of hours until the yarns have soaked the
dye completely
This is how the dyed yarn
will look like when
it has soaked in all the dye
Dyed and processed yarn ready for weaving