PANAJI
A discourse on ‘Cotton Equilibrium - the Cotton value chain through the journey of Tula’ is scheduled on March 26, between 3-4 pm followed by exhibition cum sale from 4-7pm at Goa Chitra Ethnographic Musuem, Benaulim. This is a community engagement event conducted by Ananthoo, founder of Tula Organic Clothing and a safe food activist.
The discourse will focus on the journey of Tula and how they support farmers, traditional weavers, natural dyers and manual tailors by creating ecologically-sound garments for the environmentally conscious individual. Tula’s line of contemporary conscious clothing will be available for purchase in an exhibition cum sale that will take place after Ananthoo’s discourse.
Tula is a not-for-profit clothing line that was set up in 2014, with the core philosophy of caring for the earth and farmers, spinners and weavers. Hand spun, hand woven, hand dyed with vegetable dyes and manually tailored Tula garments from heirloom cotton seeds which are organically grown in rainfed conditions, are the ‘lightest’ clothing that you can sport in terms of ecological footprint. Organic desi cotton is sourced from farmers in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, and then spun and woven into fabric in the same three states.
“These community engagement activities are conducted to support indigenous rural communities in the revival and sustenance of their arts, and to promote an awareness of sustainability of natural resources, sensitivity to the land and drastic changes in our environment,” states Victor Hugo Gomes, curator, Goa Chitra.
