Zaina Niyaz | Source | Co-Founder and Creative Head at zy-lk
Zaina Niyaz
Zaina Niyaz is the Co-Founder and Creative Head at zy-lk, a sustainable fashion brand that pulls out threads from landfill-bound sarees to upcycle as embroidery. She works with innovative natural fabrics like orange peel fabric, lotus silk, aloe vera fabric and organic dyes made with roots, seeds, plants and flowers. She underwent an informal training in Indian sign language to work with hearing and speech-impaired women from local communities for silk upcycling.
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"Once inside the dye bath, the fabric truly behaves like an artist’s blank canvas. It alters and evolves with every dip and every playful twist of fabric into a fantastic cumulation of all the movements it goes through guided by our hands- becoming a masterpiece in all its essence" on Natural Dyes
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Gear Up For Eco-Friendly, Green Fashion
Zaina Niyaz was covered in one of India's leading newspapers, Deccan Chronicle, back in 2015 when she was developing sustainable textile made of banana and aloe vera.
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Hemp Fabric: An Environmentally-Friendly Approach to Fashion
Cleveland School of Cannabis quoted Zaina Niyaz on Hemp fabric. It is the only State Approved Career School for Cannabis education.
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Struggles Of A Woman Entrepreneur- Zaina Niyaz
Zaina Niyaz of zy-lk talks about her struggles as a woman entrepreneur.
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zy-lk (https://zy-lk.com)
Co-Founder and Creative Head
started May 2019