Jyoti Panwar — Founder & Artist
Trained in fashion design at Pearl Academy and an oil painter for as long as she can remember, Jyoti Panwar has always existed between the worlds of art and fashion. Namuna began in 2022 from her desire to bring these two worlds together without allowing one to overshadow the other.
During her final-year project, while exploring upcycling and sustainability, Jyoti experimented with translating the visual language of sand art into discarded textiles. What began as an experiment gradually evolved into MUNART—a textile manipulation technique that treats fibres as a medium for creating painterly visuals.
For Jyoti, Namuna is not about being a fashion designer, textile artist, or even being restricted to a particular medium. She identifies simply as an artist. Her practice is driven by observation, experimentation and the belief that imagination should have no boundaries.
The Artisans of NAMUNA
MUNART is unlike conventional textile work, and when the technique was first being developed, there were no established methods or benchmarks to follow. Training therefore began from the fundamentals—not simply how to execute the technique, but how to read an artwork before attempting to recreate it.
Our artisans are taught to pause, observe, understand form, movement, proportion and the principles of art before translating an image into textile. The process demands patience, precision and an openness to learning something that did not previously have a defined language.
Many of our artisans have been part of Namuna since the beginning . Watching them grow from learning the first principles of MUNART to independently executing intricate compositions has been one of the most rewarding parts of building the brand.
Every Namuna piece involves many hands—a design team, technical development and, most importantly, the artisans who patiently bring the work to life.
There is a lot that goes into making a Namuna piece.
But it is the artisans who give it its soul.