
WARDROBE REVOLUTION WEEKEND: PAIWAND
Founder of Paiwand, a unique textile studio that repurposes fashion waste into upcycled handwoven textiles, Ashita Singhal is a weaver, textile artist, and social entrepreneur. She believes in working with limited resources and local materials. Being born and bred in Delhi, one of India's most polluted cities, she started to see waste as a resource and a material for her design explorations. Via her design studio, Paiwand, she challenges the conventional norms of textile design while focusing on the importance of craft and the need for sustainability. The studio is developing a collaborative movement to transform the social and environmental standards in the fashion and textile industries while providing fair and safe working conditions for weavers and workers.

Image: sang embroidery by Paiwand. Image above courtesy of Paiwand
At the Selvedge Wardrobe Revolution Weekend, Singhal will speak about her journey as an advocate for sustainable textiles and conscious, realising the environmental and social impact of the fashion industry and creating textile studio, Paiwand. Committed to challenging the conventional norms of textile design while emphasising the value of crafts and sustainability, Paiwand repurposes fashion waste into meaningful, high-quality textiles, reducing the burden on landfills.

Image: sang embroidery by Paiwand. Image above courtesy of Paiwand
At the Selvedge Wardrobe Revolution Weekend, Singhal will speak about her journey as an advocate for sustainable textiles and conscious, realising the environmental and social impact of the fashion industry and creating textile studio, Paiwand. Committed to challenging the conventional norms of textile design while emphasising the value of crafts and sustainability, Paiwand repurposes fashion waste into meaningful, high-quality textiles, reducing the burden on landfills.
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