Used milk packets and dried up teabags turn into useful yarns and fabrics at the hands of process designer Sneha Ravishankar. When the first lockdown was announced, Ravishankar, a professor in the Fashion and Textiles department at The Design Village in Noida, sniffed out everyday household waste items to turn into upcycled works like earrings, neckpieces and artworks, and made them available for purchase on her Instagram page. 

“When the first major lockdown was called, all schools had to start functioning virtually. Many students were in different parts of the country and while some had access to materials to complete assignments, others didn’t. As educational institutions, we have strict rules about materials but we don’t realise that students might not have many things readily available to them. So the idea arose from the question of if I had to make materials at home, what could I come up with?” says Ravishankar.