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Chiaki Maki

The art of the weaver

25 January - 28 February, 2025

Chiaki maki

Chiaki Maki graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1985, and worked as a freelance textile designer in NewYork. She set up the Maki Textile Studio in Tokyo, Japan, in 1990, and started visiting India for her weaving. The Maapai Project was started by her in 1997 along with Ishigaki Akiko and Masago Michoyi – a project to create contemporary clothing based on the Eastern Asian traditional materials and styles, with a Maapai show held in NewYork in 1998. Chiaki taught weaving at a workshop held by Sheila Hicks – ‘Textile Tomorrow’ – at the design school Madessa in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2000. She set up Ganga Studio in Uttarakhand in 2010, and thereafter commenced the building of a new weaving workshop at the foothills of the Himalayas designed by Bijoy Jain, Studio Mumbai, in 2012, where the Ganga Maki Textile Studio was inaugurated in 2017. Set in the picturesque foothills, the 2.5 acre studio is also the site for growing fibres and natural dye materials like indigo, and for yarn making, dyeing and weaving. Chiaki held an art textile exhibition titled 'Alchemy of Weaving' at Assaab One Art Gallery, Milan, Italy, in 2019; and a Maapai exhibition at Bijoy Jain's Studio Mumbai in 2024.

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Yuragi 7

Gold and Silver, double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Pomegranate

102 x 132cm

CODE: CHIA / 1

Tsunagi 1

Jointing, Mulberry silk, Basho (banana fibre), hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Harsingar

80 x 135cm

CODE: CHIA / 2

Yuragi 3

Gold and Silver, double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Pomegranate

104 x 131cm

CODE: CHIA / 3

Tsunagi 2

Jointing, hand-reeled Mulberry silk, Indigo and Pomegranate

114 x 55cm

CODE: CHIA / 4

Yuragi 2

Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, log wood and charcoal

75 x 108cm

CODE: CHIA / 5

Koshi 8

Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Indigo and Pomegranate

100 x 200cm

CODE: CHIA / 6

Koshi 4

Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Indigo, Pomegranate and Sappun wood

102 x 115cm

CODE: CHIA / 7

Field 1

Hand-reeled Mulberry silk, Basho (Banana fibre), Choma (Ramie),Tassar silk and Kuzu, natural colour

102 x 233cm

CODE: CHIA / 8

Field 2

Hand-reeled Mulberry silk, Basho (Banana fibre), Choma (Ramie),Tassar silk and Kuzu, natural colour

100 x 232cm

CODE: CHIA / 9

Dancing Basho

Basho Paper, Basho (banana fibre), Bhimal

140 x 140cm

CODE: CHIA / 10

Koshi 3

Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Indigo and Pomegranate

105 x 190cm

CODE: CHIA / 11

Tsunagi 5

Jointing, Linen,Tassar silk and Mulberry silk

154 x 210cm

CODE: CHIA / 12

Tsunagi 6

Jointing, hand-reeled Mulberry silk, Muga silk, Basho, Indigo and Pomegranate

40 x 165cm

CODE: CHIA / 13

Yuragi 8

Gold and Silver, double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Pomegranate

103 x 130cm

CODE: CHIA / 14

Yuragi 5

Gold and Silver, double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Pomegranate

103 x 130cm

CODE: CHIA / 15

Yuragi 6

Gold and Silver, double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Pomegranate

104 x 130cm

CODE: CHIA / 16

Koshi (grid) 1

Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, fresh leaf Indigo, Pomegranate

104 x 187cm

CODE: CHIA / 17

Untitled 1

Akhiha weave (open denting), Choma, Mulberry silk, Indigo and Pomegranate

50 x 228cm

CODE: CHIA / 18

Yuragi 4

Gold and Silver, double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Pomegranate

104 x 125cm

CODE: CHIA / 19

Koshi 6

Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Indigo and Pomegranate

103 x 108cm

CODE: CHIA / 20

Koshi 5

Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Indigo, Pomegranate and Sappun wood

102 x 115cm

CODE: CHIA / 21

Tsunagi 4

Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Indigo and Pomegranate

105 x 153cm

CODE: CHIA / 22

Tsunagi 3

Jointing, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Basho, Indigo and Pomegranate, Banyan bark

37 x 86cm

CODE: CHIA / 23

Yuragi 1

Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Indigo and Pomegranate

37 x 81cm

CODE: CHIA / 24

Koshi 2

Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Indigo and Pomegranate

100 x 200cm

CODE: CHIA / 25

Untitled 2

Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Indigo and Pomegranate

70 x 100cm

CODE: CHIA / 26

Tsunagi 8

Jointing, Linen, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Tassar silk

154 x 210cm

CODE: CHIA / 27

Tsunagi 7

Jointing, hand-reeled Mulberry silk, Choma (Ramie), Indigo and Pomegranate

41 x 171cm

CODE: CHIA / 28

Landscape

Bhimal fibre, hand-spun Himalayan wool and Pomegranate

220 x 70cm

CODE: CHIA / 29

Koshi 7

Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Indigo and Pomegranate

194 x 103cm

CODE: CHIA / 30

Untitled 4

Hand-spun Himalayan wool,

100 x 150cm

CODE: CHIA / 31

Untitled 3

Bhimal fibre, hand-spun Himalayan wool and Indigo

66 x 86cm

CODE: CHIA / 32