Fieldnotes: Chapter 1 (Exhibition)

Untwist, roll, spin, twist, twist, weave, weave, weave, repeat. Weave, weave, untwist, weave, return, weave, open, roll, spin, untwist, repeat.

Fieldnotes: Chapter 1 is an exhibition that emerges from Pramila Choudhary’s fieldwork in the Thar Desert, western Rajasthan, India, where she engaged with Pattu weavers and explored the material practices, motifs, and embodied knowledge embedded in this hand-spun and handwoven wool textile tradition.

The works translate fragments of her fieldnotes into textile form, drawing on the supplementary and extra-weft motifs of Pattu and reinterpreting them through wool, fleece, and pre-consumer textile waste. Through this process, she explore how textile knowledge is carried through making, touch, repetition, and intergenerational practice.

About the artist

Pramila Choudhary lives and works in Montréal, Canada. She is a textile artist, designer, educator, and PhD candidate in Geography, Urban and Environmental Studies at Concordia University, where her research-creation practice explores textile traditions, material culture, and sustainability. She studied Textile and Industrial Design at the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, India, and at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU), Switzerland. Her current research focuses on Pattu, a hand-spun and handwoven wool textile tradition of Rajasthan, north-west India, where she has developed her research into hand-spinning and hand-weaving techniques through fieldwork and artistic experimentation.