PK Marcin won the 2025 Mason Trust Charitable Scholarship at the Creative Fibre National Festival held in Christchurch earlier this month.
Ms Marcin started weaving three years ago, and found the combination of maths, design, attention to detail and creativity appealing.
Coming from a sewing background, she was also drawn to cloth.
"So this kind of all gelled together, and this is something that I really, really enjoy doing."
Jamdani is a fine muslin cloth where the embroidery is added as it is woven on the loom.
It was the combination of colours as well the fact that India is well known for fine muslin that inspired her to want to learn more about jamdani, she said.
During her three weeks in India, Ms Marcin hopes to learn from master weavers, one of whom is the father of a master artisan.
The 75-year-old was a seventh-generation weaver, she said.
As well as wanting to learn Indian weaving techniques, Ms Marcin wants to learn about the weavers themselves, especially those for which weaving is a family affair.
"So I’d like to talk with the people who weave and see, you know, how they look at their journey.
"Is this something they enjoy doing?
"Are there aspects of weaving that they don’t do that they’d like to do?"
Ms Marcin hopes to bring some of her own work as a part of a creative exchange with her hosts.
She is due to leave for India during Labour Weekend in October.
Once back in New Zealand she intends to put what she learns into practice
and incorporate it into her linen, cotton and wool weaving, and plans on buying a second dedicated jamdani loom.
"I can imagine just if you have a fine merino and you have a little bit of jamdani in that weave, I think there’s a lot you can do with it."
