Stole
Mita Parekh’s Originals are defined by ‘the traditional made contemporary’ look. In 1974 Mita introduced the first ‘designer’ block printed coordinates and sarees in Bombay, transforming them with her unmistakably fresh colour palette. Block printing flourished as she worked with karkhanas in the city. Before long she had her own pigment-block-printing workshop at her home in Gamdevi, where she could experiment with colour and composition to her heart’s content, using her signature wood block patterns.
Mita brings a limited edition to Mumbai once again, experimenting and co-creating with a master of the now-rare technique called 'discharge' block-printing.
Mita Parekh represents today a post-Independence Indian woman, with a confident identity
