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Tracing the Loom - Bengal Edition
A curated journey across Bengal and Odisha’s textile heartlands and craft-rich corridors, connecting handwoven traditions, natural dyes, heritage art, and living artisan communities.
This trail offers a slow, immersive journey from the silk-rich riverbanks of Murshidabad to the tribal forest heartlands of Mayurbhanj. It’s curated for conscious travelers who seek authentic encounters with artisans, dyers, spinners, and storytellers—engaging with handloom not just as fabric, but as living heritage.
All About the TRAIL
A curated journey across Bengal and Odisha’s textile heartlands and craft-rich corridors, connecting handwoven traditions, natural dyes, heritage art, and living artisan communities.
Once the capital of Bengal under the Nawabs and a thriving global trading hub in the 18th century, Murshidabad is a place where history, craft, and silk are tightly interwoven. Today, it holds a quieter rhythm, but its loom culture, textile legacy, and living artisan communities still whisper powerful stories through their warp and weft.
Tucked into the verdant northeastern corner of Odisha, Mayurbhanj is a land of tribal heritage, sacred forests, and understated textile brilliance. Known more for its biodiversity and ancient temples, it is also the birthplace of a lesser-known, yet powerful weaving culture that blends natural materials, earthy design, and indigenous narratives.
Threads of the East: From Loom to Legacy
A curated, immersive travel experience that brings together some of Eastern India’s most culturally and ecologically significant textile and craft regions. Focused on Murshidabad (West Bengal), Mayurbhanj (Odisha), and nearby allied areas, this trail is designed to foster deep engagement with the artisans, landscapes, traditions, and communities that have sustained handloom, fiber crafts, and indigenous knowledge systems for generations.
This journey invites a tribe of conscious explorers, artists, designers, researchers, and culture-seekers to move slowly and intentionally through living traditions—from sericulture-fed silk to forest-foraged dyes and tribal weaving, to story-rich sarees and tactile memories.
 Tribal Cotton Weaves |  Natural-Dyed Khadi Cotton |  Sabai Grass |
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 Murshidabad Silk |  Dhokra Metal Casting |  Kantha Embroidery |
Curated experiences, boutique lodges, heritage stays & stories blended within.
What to expect?
Studio and Artisan Home Visits
Get rare access to the heart of textile creation. Visit block-printing studios, tie-dye homes and weaving clusters. Interact directly with artisans, understand their techniques, and hear stories of generations spent perfecting their craft.
Hands-On Craft Workshops
Not just observation—participation. Experience craft as a tactile form of learning with guided workshops. These workshops offer meaningful exchanges, where learning flows both ways and respects the pace of traditional processes.
Meet Storytellers
These include royal families, folk musicians, bhopas (scroll narrators), and cultural guides who bring textiles to life through sound, story, and symbol. They carry ancestral wisdom, evolving tradition with care.
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Cultural Immersion and Storytelling
Craft here is not just a product—it's a performance, a ritual, a memory. You'll leave with an understanding of why certain motifs are used, what colors mean, and how textiles have encoded identity across caste, faith, and region.
Archival Exploration
Shop consciously through artisan collectives, not tourist traps. On this trail, we invite you to shift your relationship with what you wear and how you consume. Instead of souvenirs, you collect stories, skills, and soul.
Slow Travel with Purpose
Expect an experience that’s intentional, slow, and sustainable. This is not mass tourism—it’s curated with care for climate, culture, and craftsperson.
Landscapes & Destinations
The Kolkata-Mayurbhanj-Murshidabad journey offers an immersive exploration of Bengal's history, culture, textiles, and artisanal traditions. While Kolkata provides the gateway to the region's intellectual and artistic heritage, Murshidabad and Mayurbhanj offer a deep dive into royal legacies and tribal traditions.
The tapestry of silk weaving, natural dyes, and tribal crafts combined with the region’s rich historical past makes this an unforgettable journey.
 Kolkata – The Gateway & Creative Capital |  Shantiniketan – Artistic Philosophy |  Murshidabad - The Legacy |
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 Mayurbhanj – Tribal Textiles & Sabai Craft |  Simlipal – Nature & Wilderness |  The Ruins of Haripur |
VISUAL GALLERY
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WHY JOIN THIS COLLECTIVE?
Harness the power of storytelling to shape positive narratives, revive lost legacies and serve as sentinels to voices that need attention.
Break away from travel companies, and discover curated explorations to gain insights and knowledge about nature, climate, cultures & traditions that co-exist.
For a creative mix of travel and storytelling, meaningful conversations and break-through sessions designed to share perspectives
Meet a collective that aims to build collective awareness and drive social change toward the dire issues of our times, by means of storytelling and leadership actions that range across the niches of exploration, travel, writing, climate research, nature studies, scientific expeditions, photography and filmmaking and more.
Explore the art of impact storytelling by discovering untold narratives that intertwine with social impact, art, environmental conservation, climate actions and restoration of lost legacies.
Authentic and inspiring storytelling through the lens of local leaders, social entrepreneurs, natural history storytellers, communities and educators, leading the way.
We take travel seriously, as means to create livelihood, foster impact storytelling and build a conscious collective that aims to leave a positive imprint, using skill and knowledge exchange.
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We work at the intersection of creative exploration and impact storytelling. Fostering the use of photography, films and art to fuel environmental, cultural and social change.
A melting pot of inspirational storytellers getting together with keen seekers for the cause of building sustainable futures. A space where each attendee, creator, travel brand, conservationist or adventurer is a key influencer towards achieving a sustainable and collaborative way forward.
