The Hamari Virasat textile exhibition is running from April 25 to May 10, 2026, at 47-A Khotachi Wadi in Girgaum, a 19th-century Portuguese-style house in one of Mumbai’s most intact heritage pockets, and the choice of venue is as deliberate as everything else about the show.
Seventy-five handmade textile artworks, each measuring one square meter and contributed by members of the Hand for Handmade Foundation, make up the exhibition, with one piece for each year of the Indian Constitution. The works draw from constitutional iconography, using regional embroidery and ancient weaving techniques on silk, cotton, and wool. They translate the geometry of justice and the language of the Preamble into textile form through makers who have spent lifetimes within these traditions. Khotachi Wadi gives the exhibition a quality that a conventional gallery space would not. Its domestic architecture, wooden floors, and the filtered light of a Mumbai summer afternoon make the movement between artworks feel less like walking through a curated show and more like moving through the country’s diverse craft geography.
The Hand for Handmade Foundation has built Hamari Virasat around a gap with real economic stakes, connecting the artisan’s workshop directly to the urban collector so that every purchase moves toward sustaining the livelihoods of the practitioners whose work is on the walls. The celebration of craft carries material consequence for the people who made it possible rather than remaining a symbolic gesture.
As India enters its 77th year of Republic, Hamari Virasat asserts that India’s identity has always been shaped by creation, with craft giving life to that foundational document.
