Read about Manya Cherabuddi, a fashion designer who creates natural dyes using fruits and flowers. Her work inspires others to dye their clothing naturally.
Manya Cherabuddi is a natural colorist in her 30s with a penchant for vibrant primary colours. She was often gathering leaves and flowers as a youngster. In 2019, she quit her work at a design business to pursue her passion full-time, and she began experimenting with new colours and natural components. She has attended over 150 seminars and taught over 5,300 students from all over the world, both young and elderly. Manya was born and reared in Hyderabad, and she graduated from the University of Virginia with degrees in both the arts and business.
She worked in numerous companies for nearly six years before starting to make natural dyes. She learned how to produce natural dyes by reading blogs and watching videos. Later that year, in 2019, she took a session on natural dyes at a location called Colour Ashram in Goa, which strengthened her resolve to pursue this route professionally. She discovered that natural dyes are more eco-friendly, and that people’s use of artificial colours is harmful to the earth and their skin. According to Manya, chemical dyes are harmful to the environment and can cause cancer.
She claims that making natural colours is a waste-free process, that employees in the chemical dye industry suffer from health issues, and that the region where the dye is created becomes barren and polluted. She feels that the manufacture of natural colours is an interesting and exciting process, and that if enough people use it, it may reduce the enormous amount of pollution and carbon emission that goes into the production of artificial dyes. Manya began teaching ecological dyeing lessons under the title “Treehouse” in 2020. Natural colours, such as haldi (turmeric) or a flower, may help in disease recovery. Manya created a strategy to make natural colours to aid in relaxation throughout the epidemic. Her strategy worked, and she began producing baby clothes using natural colours.
At Holi, she demonstrated how to create natural colours to others. After conducting over 150 successful lectures in Hyderabad, Bangalore, and online, Manya is expanding to Mumbai, Pune, and Goa. Her classes range in price from Rs 500 to Rs 2,000, and she frequently trains participants on how to manufacture natural paints and colours from vegetables and fruits, as well as how to dye fabrics. She has almost 30,000 Instagram followers.
