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Haryana students turn waste fabric into art in 7 hours, draw 3.5m views

By · Via Times of India · Published by Everything Blog

In short

First-year fashion design students at Budha College utilized the Japanese kinusaiga technique to turn campus-sourced fabric scraps into detailed imagery without sewing. Working on carved thermocol sheets, the participants mapped and tucked trimmed textiles into narrow grooves to render complex shapes like flowers, animals, and human figures. The educational assignment was supervised by faculty members Harshita Singh and Komal to teach material selection and detail orientation. Officials confirmed the project was strictly an academic exercise rather than a commercial initiative.

Key points

  • Faculty members Harshita Singh and Komal led the initiative to test students with an unfa…: Faculty members Harshita Singh and Komal led the initiative to test students with an unfamiliar artistic medium.
  • The creative project focused on teaching essential fashion principles, including material…: The creative project focused on teaching essential fashion principles, including material selection and attention to detail.
  • College administrators emphasized that the viral classroom activity was entirely academic…: College administrators emphasized that the viral classroom activity was entirely academic and carried no commercial purpose.

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A small piece of patterned fabric became a flower petal. Another was tucked into a narrow groove to form the sleeve of a Geisha holding a lantern. Across a classroom at Budha College in Karnal,

Haryana, more than 100 first-year fashion design students spent seven hours turning discarded fabric into colourful artworks. They did not use a single needle or thread.

Instead, the students used a Japanese art technique called 'kinusaiga,' in which pieces of fabric are fitted into grooves cut along a design. Their creations included flowers, landscapes, animals and abstract patterns. The exercise required them to work carefully with different colours, textures and fabric pieces to bring their sketches to life.

What began as a classroom assignment eventually reached a much larger audience. Videos of the students' artworks shared on Instagram have garnered almost 4 million views.

How the students turned fabric scraps into art

The activity began with an introduction to colour theory. Students explored how different shades, textures and patterns could be combined before deciding what they wanted to create. They then sketched their designs on…

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