23rd October 2026 - 17th January 2027
Introducing Sui Dhaga 2026, curated by Manjari Nirula, Oroon Das, Sujata Prasad, and Kamayani Jalan, whose long standing engagement with material culture and artistic traditions anchors the vision of this platform.
Sui Dhaga 2026 brings together embroidery traditions from across the Asia-Pacific region. At its heart is a museum-scale exhibition, The Continuing Threadline, accompanied by a wider public programme of conversations, performances, residencies, and a curated bazaar, collectively celebrating and reframing embroidery as both a vital inheritance of women's artistic labour and a living source of design innovation.
October sees the opening of this collaborative showcase by Ahad Anhad, Asia Pacific Crafts Alliance, Crafts Council of India and Delhi Crafts Council.
The keynote exhibition aims to build empathy and a deeper human context for the diversity of masterful embroideries on display, to enable appreciation of innovative responses coded within traditions of craftsmanship, to connect the practice of embroidery to the history of our world, and to invoke our shared sense of value to uphold, to protect and to hand down.
Sui Dhaga begins on the 23rd October in New Delhi, and ‘The Continuing Threadline’ exhibition opens on the 25th October at Arthshila Delhi. Public viewing is open Tuesday to Sunday, 11am – 7pm.
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