Welcome to my portfolio!
Hello! I am Purna, a Textile & Apparel designer with a love for the small and beautiful moments of everyday life. I love chatting with strangers, eating different kinds of food, collecting textiles and flowers, and writing poetry.
Making things out of paper, thread, or cloth is something I have enjoyed doing since my childhood. My work is a combination of creative thought and my deep rooted interest in understanding people, cultures and identities. I enjoy finding new and fresh approaches to interpreting the same things that we see around ourselves in our everyday life, be it in textiles, garments or photography.
Education
Bangalore Steiner School, Karnataka
Rishi Valley School (KFI), Andhra Pradesh
National Institute of Design, Assam (Textile & Apparel Design)
(B. Des)
Skills
Embroidery, Dyeing, Painting, Printmaking, Resist Dyeing, Screen Printing, Sewing, Crochet, Knitting, Ethnography, Documentation, Illustration,
Photography, Weaving, Origami
Software Skills
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Lightroom
Languages
Fluent in written and spoken Hindi, English
Understands Kannada, Telugu, Punjabi
Interests
Indian textiles and craft traditions, craft activism, photo and video documentation, illustration, architecture and object histories, poetry, video editing, accessory design, origami, crochet, cooking
Contact
+91 8106812350
Email-vij.purna@gmail.com
Instagram -@perplexedplants
Website- https://purnavij.myportfolio.com/work
Industry Experience
Intern at The Summer House
Worked on prints, Apparel Design, Home Textile collection on Naga backstrap loom (Table Linen)
Intern at 7Weaves Research Foundation
Research into the Indigenous weaving techniques of the Rabha community in the Loharghat Forest Range, Assam. Documentation and archival of heirloom textiles and creating motif, weave structure and colour directories
Graduation Project at injiri
Worked on creating textiles and patchwork fabrics out of waste, designing collections in Appliqué embroidery and Block print, craft documentation of embroidery and weaving techniques in Rajasthan
Textile Designer at péro
Worked on creating textiles for upcoming Fall Winter and Spring Summer collections using techniques like brocade, bandhani, ikkat, jaamdani, Mashru, Chanderi and many more from different parts of India.
Created surface embroideries, trims, accessories and other embellishments out of beads and leftover textile waste for upcoming collections, shoots and shows for the designer brand