The aim of the project is to explore Assam’s handloom textile motifs as a visual medium for coded messages. The idea is to understand the motifs as a form of communication by the weavers towards the person they are weaving them for. The attempt was to understand the deeper meaning of the distinguishing elements and use the symbolism to depict a story using an amalgamation of the existing traditional technique of weaving with digital art media.

The concept of reviving a traditional medium with the new-age technology of digital media was thoroughly explored. This attempt could provide the different artists, designers, and weavers with a perspective on seeing their practise at a more scalable and experimental level. The project saw growth from an attempt to first understand the motifs to search for a story and then the struggle to understand and learn the traditional technique of weaving to modifying it using digital software to developing a product in terms of a book and further enhancing it to create a 2D animation.

The future of this project could be a series of stories that could be gathered from different parts of the State and compiled through the common loop of the weaver as the main connecting point to each story. For example, The weaver could weave a different motif or a group of motifs and tell a different story every time.