Vimor Handloom Foundation

The museum preserves and shares India's diverse textile heritage through storytelling and exhibits. It offers sessions introducing its mission of handloom conservation and empowerment, allowing visitors to experience different yarns, try weaving on a loom, and explore speciality weaves and designs. Workshops facilitate knowledge exchange among weavers, fostering innovation and cultural identity. These sessions aim to restore pride and confidence in ancestral skills. Additionally, the museum hosts talks and provides spaces for interaction, promoting understanding and collaboration among textile enthusiasts, designers, weavers, and the public.

The Vimor Handloom Foundation's "Hands to Empower" initiative focuses on skill development and empowerment, addressing migration, unemployment, urbanization, and environmental challenges. Through the Kambli Project, it collaborates with the pastoralist community in North Karnataka to enhance their sustainable production methods and create a market for their products, ensuring economic growth and preserving their craft. In addition, pilot programs in weaving and embroidery in the Yadgir district empower marginalized individuals, providing them with skills and sustainable income opportunities.

The Vimor Handloom Foundation focuses on digital and product design and weaving experiments with an emphasis on environmental sustainability. Through research and development in textile designing, it aims to document innovative practices in reducing, reusing, and recycling textile waste. The foundation also undertakes initiatives to preserve India's diverse weaving patterns and techniques, aiming to conserve heritage and add value to existing knowledge. Projects like 'The Kambli Project' work with marginalized communities to produce sustainable products, while conservation efforts include documenting oral histories and preserving antique textiles. Additionally, the foundation reimagines handloom traditions in Karnataka, collecting ancient techniques and reinterpreting designs to support contemporary artisans.