When 25 Women & a Civil Engineer Decide To Build an 18-Foot Christmas Crochet Tree Together

An eighteen-foot Christmas tree rises inside the Museum of Goa this season, standing apart from festive installations in a quiet but deliberate way. Built entirely from hand-crocheted yarn, the tree is made up of more than a thousand individual pieces, stitched together with care. Instead of relying on mass-produced décor, it celebrates craft, reuse, and a slower, more thoughtful approach to celebration. The tree exists because a group of people decided to make it exist. Twenty-five women from across Goa crocheted every component. When the pieces were ready but had nothing to hold them up, ...