The best moment at The First Layer was the loom.

We set up a small loom at HōmAnAn and let a weaver from Jaipur work through the show exactly as he would in our workshop.

Interior designers, architects, art curators – people who have spent their careers working with beautiful things walked into that room and stopped.

Some of them sat down and tried one knot. Just one.

It took them two minutes to tie 3-4 knots.

Then they would look up at him. He was already thirty knots ahead.

The conversations I had standing in front of that loom were the ones I enjoyed most.

How long does a 9×12 take. What other processes are done by hand. Why it takes the time it takes.

And every single time, watching someone go from curious to genuinely understanding – I felt proud of this craft.

India has craft like this in every corner. Most of it unseen. I got to show a small piece of it to Delhi last week. That feeling does not go away easily.