https://matthewrwebb.com/home daily 1.0 2026-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64a523c69293b6303845645e/a9dfe2c2-8aee-44f3-be77-3be51adb0655/mrw-4.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64a523c69293b6303845645e/6aecc93c-03a0-464e-9aa0-b01b9d6b1160/WhatsApp+Image+2020-08-05+at+2.40.58+PM+%281%29.jpg Home “Cut work” for Oscar De La Renta, produced in India by Marasim. India, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64a523c69293b6303845645e/1781894186263-0KAHL5F7JELWIOTRR4DS/ROL2026-ZariTheLustrousThread_byFilipWolak_0103_8833.jpg Home “Zari: The Lustrous Thread” gallery activation with textile artist Nikita Shah for the Met’s Research Out Loud program. New York, 2026. Photo by Filip Wolak https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64a523c69293b6303845645e/1780922621036-8QXM6ZKLFM3AXW5XRUAC/2023-04-17+14.04.19.jpg Home “Tradition Through Modernity” diorama. New Delhi, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64a523c69293b6303845645e/1780922618839-58HCJ6EPECQL5P4UC8IV/2023-04-17+14.04.14.jpg Home Breaking Free. With designer, and daughter of multi-generational artisans, Ertiqa Khan. New Delhi, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64a523c69293b6303845645e/1780922613167-Z956NQ48ZJ4JIQ4VM4XH/2023-04-27+14.50.00.jpg Home Commuter caste. Bicycles outside a garment factory. Noida, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64a523c69293b6303845645e/1780922623164-XBLDJGOS81T4W5T91HS2/E63D3684-EC5D-4447-BC3C-F378A1697D2C.JPG Home Jury time at NIFT, for the “Metanoia” student showcase. New Delhi, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64a523c69293b6303845645e/1780922612833-HRP264H1AUJB62KSW2PO/IMG_0758.JPG Home “Metanoia” fashion show in the courtyard at NIFT Delhi. New Delhi, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64a523c69293b6303845645e/1780922622026-6DKUXMHX4P2KQ8GLL8VE/IMG_1148.JPG Home Learning Heritage. Sitting in on Goonjan Kumar’s second-year “Indian Patternmaking” class at NIFT. New Delhi, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64a523c69293b6303845645e/1780922646664-GGOE5NFS32Z6JDKFOLPH/IMG_1295+2.JPG Home Fashion design mood board with Gandhian nationalist imagery, displayed on Upam Dudhe’s iPad. New Delhi, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64a523c69293b6303845645e/1780922647605-19WJF36UQSNWRDW98CET/IMG_3134+2.jpeg Home Ansari weaving workshop in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Varanasi, 2023. Photo by Ihaab Syed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64a523c69293b6303845645e/1780922638072-VHE2WZOOTT2X7L15U542/IMG_3792+2.jpeg Home Shooting behind-the-scenes for textile artist Nikita Shah. 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New Delhi, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64a523c69293b6303845645e/d6a96700-35ba-4a3a-adee-fb002dcbdc83/IMG_1213.JPG Home “These bodies are all firungi [foreign]” See my forcoming American Anthropologist article “Designing Embodied Citizenship” New Delhi, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64a523c69293b6303845645e/b041422a-7c7f-4d4a-bf19-78a33839e686/Retouch2022-promo-still-1.jpg Home Laurent “touches up” a portrait of Anjelina Jolie. Screenshot from Retouch (2022, 18 mins). New Jersey, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64a523c69293b6303845645e/a26c7e99-22e5-49fe-9001-7a98a045e522/IMG_1224.jpg Home Juki sewing machines “at rest” at NIFT. 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