Shreshta De

Portfolio · New Delhi

Shreshta De

Fashion design student at UDIT, New Delhi. I make textiles about the moments we instinctively reach for a camera to keep, and I write about the rest.

Textiles Weaving Garment construction Essays @shreyyy.jpg
Shreshta with eyes closed under a canopy of hanging beaded strings and pom-poms, wearing a bronze satin top and a silver choker, lit pink.
April 2026, on a digicam

Selected work · Jury 2026

Moments in Spiral

A woven textile that asks why some ordinary moments feel worth capturing, and what happens to their meaning after we keep them. Built on intuitive resonance, memory and the butterfly effect.

The final woven textile on a wooden frame loom: a crimson spiral at the centre, with blue, magenta and gold yarn radiating around it on a cream warp. Final weave

Observing, preserving, remembering

The spiral stands in for a way of seeing: thoughts moving from one moment to another, circling back, overlapping and connecting things that did not seem connected at first. A photograph freezes one instant, but the memory attached to it keeps moving.

The structure is deliberately irregular. Moments and their significance do not develop in a predictable way, so neither does the weave.

  • MediumHand weaving on a frame loom
  • PaletteBlue and yellow as the main colours; red, pink and brown for warmth and depth
  • ReferencesBartlett, Loftus, Lorenz, Louise Bourgeois, Christian Boltanski
  • ContextCourse progress and jury submission, UDIT

Process

From notebook to loom

The project moved from mind maps about the camera and memory, through crayon studies of imperfect spirals, into yarn and finally onto the frame.

A spiral-bound sketchbook page with a hand-drawn mind map around the words Moments in Spiral, branching into camera, memory, texture, shapes and colour.
01 Mind mapsCamera, moment, memory, texture, colour.
Oil pastel study on white paper: a loose crimson spiral surrounded by blue, magenta and brown marks.
02 Spiral studiesIrregular spirals in pastel, testing colour placement.
A pile of unravelled yarn in bright blue, crimson, mustard yellow and magenta.
03 YarnBlue, crimson, mustard and magenta, picked from the palette.
The weave in progress on a wooden frame loom, with the crimson spiral partly woven onto the cream warp.
04 On the loomThread intersections build the spiral row by row.

Details

Thread as a visual language

Varied thread intersections and layered colour represent how small moments come together into a larger, changing experience.

Close-up of the crimson spiral woven in thick yarn over the cream warp. Close-up of magenta yarn woven in a loose basket pattern. Close-up where gold and crimson yarn cross over the warp threads. Close-up of bright blue yarn woven in a tight check over the cream warp.

Technical work

Basic bodice making

Alongside the textile, the course covered garment construction fundamentals. The basic bodice was constructed in calico and fitted on the dress form, resolving the seam lines before any surface work.

Calico bodice block fitted on a dress form, viewed from the front, with the seam lines pinned. The calico bodice on the dress form, viewed from a three-quarter angle. Side view of the calico bodice on the dress form, showing the armhole and side seam.

Writing · Substack

Cranberry Cheesecake

Essays and 2am thoughts, published as Shreshta on Substack. Its tagline: roaming with no restrictions and the curiosity of a nine-year-old kid.

All essays on Substack

About

Somewhere between being present and getting lost in thought

Shreshta sitting against olive curtains, holding a white heeled shoe to her ear like a telephone, in a bronze satin dress.
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Shreshta lying on a yellow floor with red curls spread out, looking up at the camera with graphic eye makeup.
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I study fashion design at the University of Design, Innovation and Technology in New Delhi. My work starts with a habit of constantly noticing things: a face across the room, the way light falls on a wall, a conversation, a small gesture.

Right now that habit lives in textiles. Weaving lets abstract ideas about attention, intuition and memory become physical through thread, colour, movement and structure. Off the loom it turns into essays about love, timing, kindness and the internet, and into boards full of embroidery, tattoo drawings and clothes I want to make.

Keywords I keep returning to: moment, time, significance, attention, intuition, connection, irregularity, change, spiral.

Saved and sorted

Public boards on Pinterest.

Contact

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For collaborations, commissions or a conversation about spirals, the fastest route is Instagram.