Founder + Tenets

The aspiration of this project is an infinite loom.

Materiality, breath, material culture, slowness and humanity.

Studio Nila is a living practice in slow creation. Rooted in ancestral textile lineages and contemporary systems thinking, we work at the intersection of craft, care, and cultural memory. We return to the loom, to breath, to field. Our work listens for the frequency of coherence—where materials, makers, and meaning align. We cultivate beauty through presence, practice equity through attunement, and approach innovation as relationship and remembering. Creation is a rhythm we participate in—intentional, alive, and interwoven. Studio Nila is a space for reweaving—of stories, of supply chains, of futures.

About the Founder

Fariba Salma Alam is a designer, pattern-weaver, and systems thinker whose practice spans fashion, art, innovation and cultural memory. With nearly two decades of experience shaping digital experiences for global brands, she returns through Studio Nila to the wisdom of slowness, lineage, and presence. Drawing from her Bengali heritage and a deep somatic sensibility, Fariba bridges the precision of design with the poetics of repair. Her work honors both the seen and the unseen—the pattern and the pause, the thread and the breath.