Stories on Warp and Weft

Illustrated lecture by Ms Sentila Tsukjem Yanger, culture conservationist, textile specialist, and art and craft curator

Moderator: Kishalay Bhattacharjee

In the absence of a script and before the written word, the Nagas relayed the orality of verbal expressions through songs, folklores and in the language of cloth. The transmission of oral traditions conveyed in these practices have been passed down from generation to generation. Sentila Yanger will examine the woven narratives on the Tsüngko Tep Sü painted on cloth, the suggestive emblematic symbolisms in relation to representation of form in the figurative motifs on the shawl and variants of the mantle