During her residency, Tejal expanded her textile practice through an intimate exploration of fibre, form, and space. As the youngest designer to join the residency, she brought a fresh and intuitive approach to material experimentation, using the time and environment to move beyond textiles as surface and towards textiles as sculptural, spatial experiences. Her work during this period was shaped by textures observed in nature and by forms that emerged through close studies of insects, allowing material to carry subtle traces of landscape, movement, and organic growth. The residency offered Tejal the freedom to experiment with scale and process. Working primarily with wool, she explored macramé and knitting as techniques to build volume and create life-size sculptural forms. The space encouraged her to test the physical possibilities of fibre, allowing softness, density, tension, and repetition to shape the work. Through this process, she began to understand textile not only as a medium of craft, but as an immersive language capable of holding memory and opening new conversations around material culture.
