Welcome to Ahmedabad's National Institute of Design, where ideas flow as freely as the campus. An idea can come from the most mundane of things and what better muse than nature itself. Classrooms are never confined by walls, and here that is true to the point where one cannot tell where nature ends and the classroom begins. Right within this world of ideas is the world of materials, in which the students engage at the level of design – thinking, questioning, and reimagining the ways in which we have come to know them. And one such space of exploration is the textile lab at NID.