Sarah Thomas

Sarah Thomas is a Textile designer cum Fibre Artist who is presently based in Cochin, Kerala. She supplies her uniquely elegant products to several boutiques in Cochin and Bangalore and has held several solo Exhibitions of her Shibori Art in the same cities. Ever since I can remember I have been fascinated with textures, colours and patterns. As a child I often found my self getting lost in our backyard, studying the moss covered brick wall, making anything and everything, using all that I could find, drawing patterns in the clouds. Once I started college in the Srishti School of Art Design and Technology, Bangalore, I began to find a new found love for textiles. The feel of the yarn, the colours, the techniques, the endless possibilities! Textiles connect us with our roots – when we are born it is one of the first things we are introduced to, and when we die it is one of the last. It is an ever present part of our memories. Like a vessel it can carry familiar feelings and emotions through their touch and smell. Ammachie’s thread box, old threads and buttons, treasures to a child! Scraps of precious fabrics saved from old clothes – each with its own memories of a person, an occasion, like a textile scrapbook.