day 2

 Day two

On the second day we were asked to take a garment which we liked the most, we looked at a few textiles of different people and identified it and learned the names of few like maheshwari cloth which contains a cotton warp and silk weft. We understood from were does the cloth come from by looking at the motives made on it who produces it, How does the cloth signify the region, for what is the cloth made for. We also questioned on why are these motives printed on the cloth? Thought this is done in order to revive the culture of a particular place so that the future generation  gets an understanding of the object. And we also came up with a conclusion that different fabrics around the world have different motives depending on each country culture. We also understood that  cloth talk about status of a person like for instance if we see a person wearing a silk sari or a garment which is highly decorated we understand that the person comes from a higher sector of the society or the rich class , we noticed  poor people generally wear ticker cotton because its cheap , by this understanding of cloth or fabric we come back to the identity of a person or judging a person by what he or she wears.

We also questioned things like “were did the sary concept come from? And we understood that no one exactly knows from were did the sary come from we just know that tribal people used it as a drab to cover themselves , and then we spoke about how many  ways are there to drab a sary and how many styles are used by people , we questions like why don’t we use the tribal way draping the sary and why are these tradition dying ,  I feel the tradition is dying because of modernity and the newer generations prefer to  follow the western trend rather then following their own culture .even if these styles of different cultures are noticed it is because of film ,media and different cultural events. Later on we were given different textiles and we were only given the country name and we were asked to research each and everything on it .we had got a  cloth from Yemen . we looked at it in a different way because of our learning’s of the previous classes,

 I liked class a lot because we got an understanding of how to read a cloth by looking at varies aspects.  understanding of the cloth in accordance to the country it comes from , what colors they use , what motives they use all depends on the cultural background of the country or the place it comes from. We also understood how different people read the same cloth in a different way.the discussion in class helped us more in our research in understanding our cloth.