Bhopal: Mohammed Khatri of Bagh village in Dhar district is the first craftsman of the country to win International Fashion Designer Creation (FDC) Award -2017. He got the award for excellence in Bagh print at ‘Thailand Industry Expo’ in Bangkok on July 25. His awarded Bagh print works including western coat, long coat and pant in lehariya and triangle designs, were also showcased at the fashion show organised in the expo at Bangkok.
The expo was organised by Industrial Conservation Department, Industrial ministry, Thailand, in association with Micro Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME).
Khatri who has been working for the last five year used 1000-year-old designs, including ancient caves of Bagh, fort of Mandu, Tajmahal of Agra and Red Fort of Delhi on jeans stuff in his work. He used natural colours like rusted ion, red alum and Dhavdi flower for dyeing the clothes. Twenty-year-old Khatri who represents third generation of his family and is grandson of Mohammed Ismail Khatri told Free Press “I am happy to get the award. This is the first award of my life. I worked hard on designing clothes. The competition was tough and I didn’t imagine that I will get the award. First I sent graph of these designs. After getting selected, I started working on it. It took one month to complete the design of three works.”
“Normally, printing on a normal cloth takes an hour. However, we took three days as it was printed on long coat. It is designed in leheriya design on jeans stuff. As designs were fine, so it took long time. We used paper to make block for designs. We used triangle design and lining print for coat and trouser set. It took a day to print,” the young and enthusiastic craftsman added. Khatri who believes in experiment has also exhibited his works in national and international art fairs, including in Malaysia in 2015.
