Rithika Merchant is taking part this month in the exhibition Textile Matters. Woven Stories between India and France, organized by the French Embassy in India. Inaugurated this Wednesday at the Galerie des Gobelins/Mobilier National in Paris, this exhibition brings together numerous artists and pieces of craftsmanship and fashion highlighting French-Indian cultural collaboration through textiles. It is on view thru January 4, 2026. 
This is an opportunity to see again part of “The Flowers We Grew”,  the monumental embroidered installation created by Rithika Merchant in collaboration with the Chanakya School of Craft for the Dior Haute Couture show (January 2025, Musée Rodin), on loan from Dior which owns it. 

Exhibition co-produced by the National Manufactories – Sèvres & Mobilier National, the Institut français, and the Embassy of France in India, in collaboration with Shon Randhawa, founder of the Sutrakala Foundation.
📍Mobilier national @Galerie des Gobelins
42 avenue des Gobelins, 75013 Paris, France 
(🚇 7, station Gobelins)
From 4 December ’25 to 4 January ’26
Open everyday from 11AM to 6PM

Read more: 
https://mobiliernational.culture.gouv.fr/fr/expositions-et-evenements/ce-qui-se-trame-histoires-tissees-entre-linde-et-la-france