Nadi pahadMeena took the natural landscapes she’s often heard of and seen, but never in person, as her biggest inspiration for her rug Nadi Pahad. She started with a colorful chain pattern, changing the shades every now and then to keep the elements slightly different from each other. Nadi Pahad literally translates to rivers and mountains and there’s an abundance of them in Meena ’s rug. The rivers she remembers are represented by the flowing green-blue sections covering the rug partially from top to bottom. The frilled and uneven borders she’s surrounded her mountains and rivers with, are influenced by the patterns she’s seen on the clothing of people she’s around in her village. The rug highlights Meena ’s imagination and even has small very detailed elements she’s fond of such as butterflies, flowers, and leaves perfectly shaped to mimic their real counterparts.
-Meena