Rising Stars: Tushita Singh

Hand embroidered textiles have been an integral part of India’s textile culture since long. In an era of rampant digitisation and fast fashion, I believe that somewhere the essence of documenting and preserving embroideries techniques is getting lost. As a sincere attempt to elevate hand embroideries and treat them as bespoke creations, I established Tushita Design Studio in April 2022. Here, I work with an expert embroidery artisan, Sonu Khan to create hand embroidered artworks, which are framed for wall decor.  As an artist, I love observing the patterns of land and water bodies and they emerge as a strong source of design inspiration for my embroidery artworks. A Bird’s eye view of various terrains is something that captures my imagination. It is an immersive experience to design and play around with a wide variety forms, colours and textures and materials. My colour palette is largely natural and earthen tones with a few surprise hints of colours spread around the artworks. I conceptualise, hand paint the backgrounds on fabrics and even foil print some of them. I then guide the artisan to create the textures through various styles of hand embroideries.This process is extremely creatively satisfying.