Morning Musings

The things I want to do are many:

Add more blog notes and share the beauty I see in man-made things – just to point out one facet or another

Add a line of prints – an affordable reproduction of the fantastic motifs in all the antique art that passes through wovensouls

For larger textiles that cannot be saved, cut & frame the fragments and save them for posterity.

Yesterday I looked at the print on my husband’s shirt – it shows a color modified version of the hand-painted Indian long textile from the Tapi collection that was found in Toraja – depicting a particular tree. The original has blues and pinks. The shirt print has been modified blues and browns. Branded too. Why not, I thought. Someone is bound to come up with these adaptation ideas. So going one more step for wovensouls – get yardage printed with the prints of the beautiful textiles and then make affordable printed shawls / cushion covers etc.

So many ideas …

And the original from the Tapi collection:

And a fragment from wovensouls:

And so the list of “things that I want to do”, gets longer with every idea. And then the things that I can give time to, seems to grow smaller and smaller with new demands on time.

Maybe in another lifetime!

Perhaps it is a good thing to have more plans than time… rather than the other way round.

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jaina mishra

7th Jan 2026