Sakshi C Kumar stands as a beacon of tradition and innovation in the world of fashion, continuing the visionary legacy of her mother-in-law, Neeru Kumar, through Tulsi, a revered women’s wear brand entrenched in handcrafted fabrics and Indian culture for over four decades.

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An aesthetic confluence of traditional textiles and modern designs best defines the clothing label – Tulsi.

Informed by the Bauhaus as well as craft techniques of Africa and Japan, textile artist Neeru Kumar has stayed true to her style all through her prolific years—including a line for RH most recently.

Tulsi is the brand name of the renowned, diversified and innovative textile designer Neeru Kumar. Traditional techniques, a contemporary sensibility, an innovative use of colour.

Far from the madding crowd, the veteran designer walks into the closet of her past work exiting from the front to now, arguing for modernity in weaving

For Neeru Kumar, one of India’s foremost textile innovators, the fashion industry’s renewed interest in handlooms is both timely and vital.

When Shabana Azmi claims she’s bought enough from this store to start a separate one of her own, you are more than tempted to step into Neeru Kumar’s Tulsi.

Despite most Indian textile producers having their strength in large quantities aimed at a low or medium market segment, there is no shortage of companies that fully exploit India's rich historical and cultural heritage for the creation of garments with an insatiable charm.For this reason we want to...

A chance encounter with a loom changed the life of science
graduate, Neeru Kumar. So fas-cinated was she by the process of working on the
loom that she decided on the divergent course her life was to take from there.
She enrolled at N.I.D. The year was 1980.

From Cousins ​​& Co. Beautiful pastels
from Södahl. Throws and pillow covers from the internationally renowned designer Neeru Kumar from India She works with the coarse and unrefined wild silk Tosha, as well as with wool from Australia, here from Belgium and finer wools from India and China.

Neeru Kumar was accepted into The NID in 1974. For the first eighteen months, every student was required to dedicate themselves to general principles of industrial design and visual communication.After that, Neeru concentrated on designing fabrics.This meant an introduction to traditional Indian weaves, printing techniques, color theory, weaving on looms, and experimenting with the different possibilities of materials such as cotton, silk, wool, jute, etc.

An Indian designer harvests the gold of Tussar Silk It's primitive, it's bold, it's wild. And today its character is well known the world over.

Neeru Kumar was born in 1953. As an educated Indian daughter, she fulfilled her parents' wish to study medicine.The study went well, but, as she herself says, medicine was not her "cup of tea".

Centre, from top, fine, squared patterns on a light, cool-weather scarf, simple geometrics decorate a shawt strong, floral geometrics on a cushion.

Neeru Kumar describes
her self as a weaver, and the bulk of her elegant yet wearable clothes, as well
as excingly textured home furnishings are exported. Her traditionalmar kets are
Japan, France, Italy and Spain.

Neeru Kumar who has earned a
considerable reputation for her ability to stir souls with her woven fabric
creations, Meet her once and it becomes amply obvious that weaves, yarns,

fabric, texture... is the sole reason she's living. And, whir does
her work mean to her? Says Kumar, "I feel that any piece of fabric I
design should be honest. There should be no lies in it. It should be
functional, aesthetically striking and user-friendly"

Neeru Kumar is an NID alumni known for her work with woven textiles, particularly her innovative use of tusser ghicha yarn.

A successful textile business specializing in hand-woven dhurries and furnishings.It details her journey from a designer role at Fab India to starting her own venture with a small contract from Tata Exports, eventually growing it into a multi-crore enterprise by capitalising on an accidental fabric discovery and strategic opportunities.

Work is always a mother's work with thread and needle. Exquisite skill.Expand the "IL TOD" that connects Asia too, and refine the heart.In various places in Asia...Stores where you can buy sewing work like this: Tulsi"TULSI" 19 Santushti Shopping Arcade, Opp.Ashoka Hotel, New Wellingdon Camp, New Delhi/Tel.011-6870339

Kumar's success story is inspiring. In line with
her aesthetic, she supplies both fabricand clothes to British stores such as Liberty, Har-vey Nichols', Bon Marche and Selfridges as well as stores in France and Japan. "I've sold all over the world, but Paris is my territory. I sell most of my work there," she modestly adds.

The splendid artisanal silks created by Neeru Kumar, offered in the two Tulsi stores, one in Santushti Complex and the other, larger, recently opened in Hauz Khas. They are fabrics with large ecru and black weaves of tribal inspiration, splendid silk scarves, raw silk waistcoats, stoles, carpets, rope and wicker panels, and collectibles: like ancient saris and carefully restored fabrics, stitch by stitch.

Stated. "Good design speaks by itself. Adornments and
bright colours only shorten the design-span of garments as the eye easily gets
tired of such things," says Kumar.

Neeru Kumar's design directory is rife with sophistication. A strong sense of colour and texture tops the priority of this National Institute of Design (NID)

Weaving has long been a passion. She brings about various blends of yarns to make fabrics.