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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.

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Introducing The Karun Thakar Fund

The V&A is pleased to announce the launch of the Karun Thakar Fund, a new fund supporting the study of Asian and African textiles and dress. The Fund is presented by Karun...
null Avalon Fotheringham
Museum life

Call for Scholarship Award Applications

null Karun Thakar
Our projects

Quilting heritage

null Maya Gowaily
Our projects

Fashion: Kimono

null Caroline Sato
Our projects

The State of the Weave: Ewe Kente in Agbozume

null Lee Dekel
Museum life

Mosaics of Cloth

null Anitha N.
Our projects

Revitalising the Choga

null Lokesh Ghai
Our projects

Indigenous Textiles of Odisha

null Pankaja Sethi
Our projects

Collective visions

null Julie Fox
Our projects

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

null Lodrick Makokha Wangatia
Museum life

Vitu vya Sanaa – a methodology for crafting meaningful objects

null Adam Yawe
Our projects

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

null Emma C. Wingfield
Our projects

Call for Project Grant applications

null Avalon Fotheringham
Our projects

Images of the Buddha and dress beyond ancient Gandhara

null Yicong Li
Our projects

Encoded textiles – Chinese minority textiles and their digital interpretation

null Leona Wang
Our projects

Karun Thakar Scholarships awarded

null Karun Thakar
Asia

Call for Scholarship Applications

null Divia Patel
Asia

Creating The Karun Thakar Fund

null Karun Thakar
Asia

Introducing The Karun Thakar Fund

null Avalon Fotheringham
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