Gathering Threads

KCC’s Gathering Threads is a two-day symposium that reflects on this layered ecosystem—not just to celebrate handloom, but to critically engage with its entanglements with state policy, markets, identity, and cultural survival. We bring together designers, artists, scholars, and stakeholders to discuss how India’s textile heritage is preserved, performed, and positioned in a world of accelerated change.

India’s handloom heritage carries within it a deep ecology of labour, land, memory, and resistance. In a world shaped by speed, scale, and spectacle, handloom insists on another rhythm—one of tactility, care, and continuity. The journey from loom to market is marked by slippages where craft becomes commodity, and provenance is lost. Hence, National Handloom Day serves as a call to rethread what history has frayed—to hold space for tension, survival, and future possibility.

You may also like the following events from Kolkata Centre for Creativity:

• This Friday, 1st August, 05:30 pm, মন্দিরের মানচিত্র: Reading Calcutta through Its Forgotten Shrines in Kolkata
• This Saturday, 2nd August, 11:00 am, আবৃত্তির আঙিনা: Bangla Elocution Workshop in Kolkata
• This Sunday, 3rd August, 11:00 am, Adab Se Adab Tak : Online Spoken Urdu Course in Kolkata

Also check out other Arts events in Kolkata.