The Karun Thakar Fund

The Karun Thakar Fund is presented by Karun Thakar in collaboration with the V&A. The Fund offers scholarships and grants of up to £10,000 to students, early career researchers and emerging practitioners working anywhere in the world on any aspect of Asian or African textiles and dress.

The Karun Thakar Fund

Introducing The Karun Thakar Fund

Call for Scholarship Award Applications

Karun Thakar Fund 2024 – 25 project grants awarded

The Karun Thakar Fund 2024

Karun Thakar Fund scholarships awards

Call for Scholarship Award Applications

Quilting heritage

Fashion: Kimono

The State of the Weave: Ewe Kente in Agbozume

Mosaics of Cloth

Revitalising the Choga

Indigenous Textiles of Odisha

Collective visions

Traditional Emahiya attire as a template for preserving Eswatini history and culture

Vitu vya Sanaa – a methodology for crafting meaningful objects

Cloth as archive: contemporary Dioula weaving in northern Côte d’Ivoire

Call for Project Grant applications

Images of the Buddha and dress beyond ancient Gandhara

Encoded textiles – Chinese minority textiles and their digital interpretation

Karun Thakar Scholarships awarded

Call for Scholarship Applications

Creating The Karun Thakar Fund

Introducing The Karun Thakar Fund