For this new collection, Bridge Bharat collaborates with master artist Lalita Vakil and her atelier of women artisans from Chamba, custodians of the centuries-old tradition of Chamba Rumal embroidery. Traditionally created as square ritual textiles, Chamba Rumals narrate mythological stories where the divine and the earthly coexist. Floral landscapes, trees, and animals such as deer and peacocks gently frame sacred encounters, evoking a living, breathing world.

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Bridge Bharat’s intervention honours this legacy while extending its visual and material language. The project introduces a sheer, fine-count silk–cotton khadi base in place of the traditional fabric, lending the embroidery a lighter, more fluid, contemporary quality while retaining the precision of the double-sided stitch. Conventional motifs are carefully adapted, with visible echoes of older Rumal formats retained in new compositions. The twelve works, inspired by the valley of Chamba and studied from historical Rumals, revisit familiar themes such as the chaupad with restraint and sensitivity. Conceived as textiles that function as art, they bridge ritual, landscape, and contemporary expression while remaining firmly grounded in the traditions of the craft.