After a busy workwack, Hyderabad -based Chartered Accountant Deepika Mamidala and Sneha Muparthi are unaware of a stream tafting session in a comfortable Art Studio Artgram. Deepika, an art enthusiast, sees it as the right way to rest while spending time with friends. “It is very beneficial to make something with your hands. Sure, you can buy a carpet or rug, but making yourself is a completely different experience, “she shares.

Business Analyst and Self-Confeded Potterhead, Ratnamani VeniceTi, recently stabbed the 16×16 inch Harry Potter-Theme rug for his two-month-old nephew, Aryan. However, he has not yet gifted it to him-he is planning to complete the scene with a Griffindor Bage and a Haflepaf T-shirt. Initially expecting a three -hour session, Ratnamani was pleasant to finish his piece in just 90 minutes, leaving her over time to tough an Oswald Lucky Rabit Galicha. Ratnamani recently started tafting when she witnessed the online session.

The creative and touching experience of tafting a rug using a tafting gun is quickly gaining popularity in Hyderabad, a city that is rapidly embracing arts and craft experiences on hands. Participants can create everything from heart and coaster to guitar, adapt to the design for gifts, or craft doors and wall decor. With its mixture of creativity and relaxation, rug tafting is proving to be more than just a trend.

Immersive experience

Hema Somisety and Shweta Somisati | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Even beginners can try their hand in Rag Tafting, Shweta Somisetti, who in 2023 co-established Artgram in Banjra Hills with his co-sister Hema Somisati. The Studios, which was first opened in Vijayawada and later expanded to Bengaluru, provides one, Mandla art, mirror mandals, paintings, mosaic arts, and to detect various art forms including both adults and children to detect various art forms including Place mud-making. In October 2024, Galicha Tafting with a Tafting Gun was introduced, which offers young adults and professionals a unique way to create a textile art, enjoying a immersive hands-on experience.

“Tafting is a great way to relax for professionals or housewife. They can make it single, as a team, or even as part of a corporate bonding session, ”Shweta explains. “With the option of taking a break on coffee or snacks, the idea is to-hold and hold with friends while engaging in a creative activity.”

Tafting Session on Artgram | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

The studio is equipped with adjustable wooden tafting frames, each fitted with a tafting cloth (jute) in the center. The process begins by throwing a colored yarn through the needle of the tafting gun, securing it with a knot at the end. “You start by underlining the design on the fabric. Then, by pulling the trigger of the tafting gun, the yarn is punched through the fabric, forms a pattern or design, ”describes the studio in-house art teacher.

There are classes to learn tafting; Participants can select 8 inch, 12-inch or 16-inch rug in a three-to-four-hour session, with prices ranging from ₹ 2,000 to ₹ 4,500 in prices. Tafing may have zero knowledge, but still it can try whether tafting for fun, relaxation, or team-building, Artgram is making this creative craft more accessible and pleasant to all. It is not about being skilled because Shweta says, “It is not a certification course to be a professional; It is about finding something new for a unique experience in an art club. ,

Medical art

Niharika Golpali | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

A few kilometers away in Jubilee Hills, Lyzure Art Therapy Cafe provides a calm environment, which brings communities together through various forms of medical art. Its founder, Niharika Golapali, remembering a group of young people, who uses a rug in London using raw materials obtained from different parts of India. During his research, he found that logistics and supply chains for these materials in India were not well taken away.

A participant Tufts Tfts A Design Art Therapy Cafe in a design. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

“There is a lot of possibility for Tafting,” Niharika says, who worked with her team for one and a half years before introducing it in her studio in December last year. “Once the entire rooms are beautified during the Nizam era, fully designed carpets. Today, asanas and carpets have become an essential element of modern interior design aesthetics. ,

Increasing interest in experienced art in Hyderabad was an important reason for launching tafting in cafes in December 2024. Therapy cafes also offer sessions on various forms of making candles, clay utensils, T-shirt painting and painting.

Tafting Space in Lyzure | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

By selling DIY Tafting Kits to cooperate with architects and interior designers from various parts of India and to cooperate with architects and interior designers, the purpose is to build a vibrant community around Tafting.

The story of Tafting is the story of development. Its long and checker journey weaving has its origin in the ancient history of weaving. Tafting was previously practiced to make decorative rugs, textiles and ornate clothes. This technique of making custom rugs and textiles can be detected by civilizations like Egypt, Persia, Greece and Rome. This art of making rug has been spread all over the world and its development tells a timeless story for centuries. Tafing is a form of creative expression and with the option of choosing from different materials, contemporary designs and styles, adds an individual touch for a tazing rug construction and also heat and character for a wall decoration.